Pollo Asado

Ahhhhh, the smell of fresh pollo asado. Nothing quite like it. Been on a pollo asado overload this week. Don Duende says he has eaten a chicken a week almost every week of his life. That’s over 2300 chickens. That’s a lot of chicken. I’ve eaten 15, but then I do have a macrobiotic diet. Barriga llena, corazón contento.

Factoid: Pollo Asado con limón y ajo (Recipe for roast chicken with lemon & garlic) This Spanish roasted chicken dish has a tangy lemon flavour and makes a change to traditional roast chicken.

Basic ingredients
1 medium sized whole chicken
a chunk of bread from the day before
4 cloves of garlic
2 large potatoes 1 whole lemon plus juice of one lemon
olive oil
200ml white wine
100ml water
salt and pepper

Steps:
1. Prepare the chicken for roasting place it in a roasting tin and season with salt and pepper
2. Rub one whole garlic clove over the chunk of bread and place inside the chicken
3. Cut the whole lemon into quarters and also place inside the chicken then pour a generous amount of olive oil over the chicken
4. Peel and cut the potatoes before placing them in the roasting tin around the chicken also put the whole garlic cloves (without peeling) in the tin
5. Pour the lemon juice and water over everything and place in the oven at 200 degrees
6. While roasting, open the oven and baste the chicken and potatoes several times
7. After an hour, pour the white wine over the chicken and then return to the oven to roast for another 15 minutes.