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Roast Chicken with Roasted Potatoes

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Roast Chicken with Roasted Potatoes and garlic sauce – an all time favorite Sunday supper at my house. A delicious and juicy roast chicken served with perfectly roasted potatoes and an easy garlic sauce that’s to die for. Can’t get any simpler and more delicious than this.

Roast Chicken with Roasted Potatoes and garlic sauce serving in a white plate

This roast chicken with roasted potatoes and garlic sauce is by far my favorite Sunday dinner meal. Once you’ve had roasted potatoes this way, you’ll never want to have them any other way. First of all your house will smell fantastic, you’ll get all the dogs and neighbours at your door because they’ll want a piece of that something you have in your oven.

You might say by now that I’m obsessed with garlic sauce, and you may be right. I love garlic, and I’ll put garlic in anything I cook. But this is the kind of dinner that my mom put on our table every single Sunday. While I may not make this every weekend now, whenever I do, it’s like a treat. Of course you can make a salad with this heavenly meal. However, you won’t need a salad if you make the garlic sauce, which I have to say it’s a very traditional Romanian sauce for any roasted meat and potatoes.

How to Make Garlic Sauce

Start by making the garlic sauce because you’ll need this for both the chicken and the potatoes. You’ll need a mortar and pestle to crush and grind the garlic, but if you don’t have any, you can use a regular garlic press.

Peel a whole head or bulb of garlic, put it in the mortar and pestle, and add about 1/2 tsp of salt to it. Now take your frustrations on that poor garlic and crush away at it until it looks like a paste.

how to make garlic sauce for roast chicken

To the mortar add a tablespoon of olive oil then about 1/4 cup of cold water and mix everything well together. This is all you need to do for this sauce.

How to Roast a Chicken

Next we make a bit of dry rub for the chicken. Basic rub, garlic powder, paprika, salt, pepper, basil, onion powder. Mix everything together, then rub all over the chicken.

Roast Chicken with Roasted Potatoes process shots

Place the chicken in a roasted pan and cover the chicken with aluminum foil and bake in the oven at 375 F degrees for about 2 hours, removing the aluminum foil after 1 hour.

How to Roast Potatoes

Clean and cut your potatoes and add them to a large enough baking dish. For the garlic sauce for the potatoes, take 2 tablespoons of melted butter, 2 tablespoons of olive oil and about half of the garlic sauce we made earlier, and mix everything well together. Pour this sauce over the potatoes and toss well, making sure all the potatoes are covered in the sauce. Season with more salt and pepper if preferred.

Cover the potatoes with aluminum foil, roast in the oven with the chicken for an hour and a half, also removing the aluminum foil after about an hour, leaving them open to roast properly for the remaining time.

And that’s it, you’re done, go do your nails, your hair and then come back after the time has passed and take your masterpiece out of the oven and all that’s left to do is eat.

Roast Chicken with Roasted Potatoes in a large platter

Yum, or what? Trust me, I wouldn’t steer you wrong, this dinner is one you’ll never forget.

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Roast Chicken with Roasted Potatoes

4.66 from 29 votes
Prep: 20 mins
Cook: 2 hrs
Total: 2 hrs 20 mins
Author: Joanna Cismaru
Serves: 4 servings
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Roast Chicken with Roasted Potatoes and garlic sauce – an all time favorite Sunday supper at my house. A delicious and juicy roast chicken served with perfectly roasted potatoes and an easy garlic sauce that’s to die for. Can’t get any simpler and more delicious than this.

Ingredients

Garlic Sauce

  • 1 head garlic
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1/4 cup cold water
  • 1 tbsp parsley fresh, chopped

Dry rub for chicken

  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 tsp onion powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp pepper
  • 1 tbsp paprika
  • 1 tbsp basil

Garlic sauce for potatoes

  • 1/2 garlic sauce from above
  • 2 tbsp butter unsalted, melted
  • 2 tbsp olive oil

Chicken and Potatoes

  • 1 whole chicken
  • 8 potatoes cleaned and cut into cubes or wedges
US Customary – Metric

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375 F degrees.
  • Start by making the garlic sauce. Put the garlic and salt in a mortar and pestle and crush the garlic until it becomes a paste. Add the oil and water to the garlic and mix well. Set aside.
  • Mix all ingredients together for the dry rub and rub it all over the chicken. Put the chicken in a roasting pan. If your roasting pan doesn’t have a rack, you’ll need to add a bit of oil to the bottom before adding the chicken to the pan. Cover with aluminum foil and roast for 2 hours, removing the aluminum foil after one hour. Check after 1.5 hours and see if chicken is properly roasted, if it is, remove from oven.
  • Half an hour into baking the chicken, you can prepare the potatoes and add them to the oven. First we need to prepare the garlic sauce for the potatoes by mixing 1/2 of the garlic sauce made earlier, with 2 tbsp of melted butter and 2 tbsp of olive oil. Pour over the potatoes and toss well. Season with more salt and pepper if needed. Add the potatoes to a roasting pan and cover the potatoes with aluminum foil.
  • Bake for an hour and a half, removing the foil after an hour.
  • Use the leftover garlic sauce to either pour over the chicken and potatoes or you can use it as a dip.

Recipe Notes

Roasting time could vary depending on oven or weight of chicken.
Please keep in mind that nutritional information is a rough estimate and can vary greatly based on products used.

Nutrition Information:

Calories: 502kcal (25%)Carbohydrates: 81g (27%)Protein: 10g (20%)Fat: 16g (25%)Saturated Fat: 5g (31%)Cholesterol: 15mg (5%)Sodium: 899mg (39%)Potassium: 1852mg (53%)Fiber: 6g (25%)Sugar: 2g (2%)Vitamin A: 1130IU (23%)Vitamin C: 27.7mg (34%)Calcium: 72mg (7%)Iron: 4.2mg (23%)
Course:Main Course
Cuisine:Romanian
Keyword:roast chicken, roasted potatoes, sunday supper
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  1. William Shaw says

    November 14, 2020 at 7:32 am

    Hi – visited the site to pick up on the spice mix for the chicken (I am cooking for the [Romanian] wife tonight.
    We will have it with Mamaliga cu Brenza (Polenta and Cheese (we use stilton, but you could use mature cheddar) instead of potatoes.
    Salad will be iceberg tossed in lemon juice.
    A couple of things on the garlic sauce (Mujdei de Usteroi) – we tend to use Dill rather then parsley and add a peeled tomato. This cooks it just enough – soak the tomato in boiling water to skin it. Romanians also add sour cream or yoghurt to the sauce as well.
    May I also recommend (if you don’t have it…) a recipe for Tocitura no romanian colection of recipes is complete without it.

    Reply
  2. William Shaw says

    November 14, 2020 at 7:25 am

    Visited the page to basically get the mix for the chicken.
    We will have it with Polenta and Cheese (Mamaliga cu Brenza) and some salad (iceberg tossed in lemon juice).

    Reply
  3. Kimberly June Willoughby says

    September 20, 2020 at 6:23 pm

    5 stars
    Delicious and beautiful! Definitely recommend!

    Reply
  4. Leet Busskill says

    August 22, 2020 at 3:19 pm

    This sounds great and I’m trying it out right now–just one question–you never say what to do with the first half of the first sauce you make. Do you put it on the chicken before cooking?

    Reply
    • jo says

      August 22, 2020 at 4:36 pm

      It’s in step 4. You’re mixing half of it with the melted butter and olive oil and tossing it with the potatoes. 🙂 I hope you like it!

      Reply
      • Leet Busskill says

        August 22, 2020 at 4:43 pm

        What do you do with the first half, though? It doesn’t say…

      • jo says

        August 22, 2020 at 4:54 pm

        As I just said, the first 1/2 you’re mixing with the melted butter and olive oil and tossing it with the potatoes. Any leftover sauce is used to pour over your chicken and potatoes when serving, as stated in the last step.

  5. Tiffany says

    March 8, 2020 at 7:11 pm

    5 stars
    Made this tonight and it was amazing! Will definitely be making this again, the garlic sauce is a must. Love love love this recipe. I also made some honey glazed carrots and everything complemented each other beautifully. Thank you for this recipe.

    Reply
  6. Serena says

    November 26, 2019 at 5:11 pm

    Thank you so much for this recipe.

    Would it be possible to put the potatoes in the same tray as the chicken.

    making a ‘potato rack’ or no?

    Reply
    • jo says

      November 26, 2019 at 5:20 pm

      You can definitely put the potatoes around the chicken, as far as a rack, they might not crisp up that way, otherwise it should be ok.

      Reply
  7. Adina says

    November 19, 2015 at 1:42 am

    5 stars
    Ah, usturoi… I love it so much. And I put garlic in just about anything too, it must be the Romanian blood, it cannot flow properly without a good amount of garlic in it…. 🙂 The chicken and the potatoes look fantastic, a perfect Sunday meal for me.

    Reply
    • jo says

      November 19, 2015 at 8:17 am

      See you know what I’m talking about! 🙂

      Reply
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