There are so many ways to do a Sunday roast, you could make a new recipe every week to delicious results. But Nigella Lawson has a roast recipe so moreish she promises you'll want to make it again and again. To make things even more tempting, the chicken is slow cooked, so it's hands off and "gloriously easy" to get a roast on the table.
Two lemons are thinly sliced and cooked to caramelisation, with garlic and thyme also infusing the chicken with a wonderful flavour. Tangy lemon and honeyed garlic are the major flavours here and your home will smell all the better for it. In her recipe notes , Nigella shares her inspiration was old school French chicken casseroles made with whole garlic cloves.
"This is one of those recipes you just can't make once: that's to say, after the first time, you're hooked," she writes. "It is gloriously easy: you just put everything in the roasting dish and leave it to cook in the oven, pervading the house, at any time of year, with the summer scent of lemon and thyme — and of course, mellow, almost honeyed garlic. "The wonderful thing about it is that you turn the lemon from being a flavouring to being a major player; left in chunks to cook slowly in the oven they seem almost to caramelise and you can eat them, skin, pith and all, their sour bitterness sweetened in the heat.
" All you'll need to do to get it going is combine the ingredients, cover with foil and cook at a "flavour-intensifyingly" low heat. Two hours later, you'll want to eat it s.
