The One Dish Everyone Should Know

How many times has this happened to you: You're sitting at home and you find out that you have to cook a meal for someone who's sick, or you have company over and you don't know what to cook to make everyone happy? Whenever I need a simple dish that looks as good as it tastes I turn to my Chicken and Potatoes.

This dish is amazingly simple and sure to be a hit.

Chicken and Potatoes.

Pre-heat oven to 400

2 pounds of red-skin potatoes

1 whole roasting chicken

4 Tbsp (1/2 stick) butter

2 Tbsp vegetable oil

2 Tbsp Poultry seasoning (For my recipe, look below)

2 Tbsp Kosher salt

1 Tbsp garlic powder

1 Tbsp ground black pepper

First, cut potatoes into 1/2 inch cubes and place in the bottom of a roasting pan. Coat with 1 tbsp of oil, 1 tbsp of salt, 1/2 tbsp of pepper and the garlic powder. Toss to coat evenly.

Mix the poultry seasoning with the butter, then spread mixture under the skin of the breast meat. Place chicken on top of the potatoes and then coat with the remaining oil, salt and pepper. Roast at 400 for at least one hour, or until the internal temperature of the deepest part of the breast meat reaches 165 degrees; then pull out the chicken and let rest for at least 15 minutes, allowing the meat to rest and gently finish cooking. Then carve and serve.

That's it. So easy! Serve the potatoes along side the chicken. The potatoes absorb all the flavor from the chicken drippings, in my opinion, the potatoes are the best part!

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For my personal poultry seasoning:

2 Tbsp Kosher Salt

1 Tbsp Paprika

2 Tsp garlic and onion powders

2 Tsp dried parsley and thyme leaves

1 Tsp fresh cracked black pepper.

Combine thoroughly, rubbing between your fingers to make sure the oils of the herbs mix with the rest of the seasonings.