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Italian roast chicken with peppers and olives
Photo: Lily Banse

Italian roast chicken with peppers and olives

10 ingredients 30 min + 2 hr Serves 4-6 openrecipes

A roast chicken always is celebratory. The vibrantly coloured and intensely flavoured vegetables that are cooked alongside here seem only to underline this, offering their own brightness and brio, sunny in taste as well as mood.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

422
Calories
34g
Protein
18g
Fat
33g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 10 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Orange 1 medium (131g) 62
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Rosemary 1 tsp dried (1.2g) 4
Olive 1 large (4g) 4
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 1 x 1.5kg/3lb 5oz chicken
  • 1 unwaxed lemon
  • 4 sprigs rosemary
  • 3 leeks
  • 2 red peppers
  • 1 orange
  • 1 yellow pepper
  • 100g/3½oz pitted dry-packed black olives
  • 4 tbsp olive oil
  • Sea salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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