WOOD ROASTED BOSTOCK'S CHICKEN

Ingredients:

·       1 x 1.4 kg Bostock Organic Chicken - 2020 Supreme Champion

·       2 red peppers

·       1 cob of sweetcorn in the husk

·       1 zucchini

·       100g pine nuts

·       50ml Sherry vinegar

·       150 ml extra virgin olive oil

·       1 lemon

·       1 bunch thyme

·       2 cloves garlic

·       1 large carrot

·       1 large brown onion

·       50ml white wine vinegar

·       40g white sugar

Method

Preheat your oven to 200c.

Prepare your chicken for roasting by pushing lemon, garlic and half the thyme inside the cavity. Cross the legs over each other and tie them up with butchers twine. Rub 75 mls of olive oil into the chicken and liberally season with sea salt and freshly ground pepper.

Roughly chop the carrot and onion and put them in the bottom of the roasting tray with the rest of the thyme. Place your chicken on top, put it in the oven and roast for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Baste the chicken halfway through roasting and if the pan is looking dry add some water.

Bake the sweetcorn in the husk at 200c for 25 minutes until tender, cool and peel off the husk and cut off the cob. Roast the capsicums. Place in a bowl once cooked, cover with cling film so the skin will come away. Peel and cut into strips. Combine vinegar and sugar and heat to dissolve sugar. Shave the zucchini with a vegetable peeler, place in a bowl and pour over pickling liquid.

Toast pine nuts until golden.

Once your chicken is cooked place it on a board or large plate to rest for 15 minutes.

Place the roasting tray over on the stove top, turn to medium and add a cup of water. Reduce by two thirds, finish off the stove top with sherry vinegar and olive oil.

Portion your chicken and divide on to four plates, mix together the corn, red peppers and pickled zucchini and warm for 5 minutes in the oven. Divide this between the four plates and pour over the warm sauce, garnish with pine nuts and some fennel fronds.

Thanks to Bostock Brothers for providing this recipe. For more recipes using their award-winning chooks visit the website.