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Nice and easy one, but delish and great for this time of year!

2Tsbp Olive oil
1 whole Chicken (2.25 kg) cut into pieces, or whatever you fancy thigh, breast etc
Salt and freshly ground Black Pepper
125ml White Wine
20 unpeeled garlic cloves
Finely grated zest of 2 lemons and juice of 1 lemon
1 Large sprig of thyme
1 Bay Leaf
300ml Chicken stock

Pilaf Rice
25g Butter
1 small onion peeled and chopped
300g basmati rice
750ml chicken or vegatable stock

To Serve
1 Baguette cut into thick slices
Chopped Parsley

Pre heat the oven to 170C

Heat a large casserole or oven proof saucepan, add the oil and the chicken pieces skin side down, cook until golden brown, season with salt and pepper. Pour off and discard any fat

Add the wine and garlic cloves and boil for 2 mins, then add the lemon juice and zest, the herbs and the stock. Bring back to the boil, then cover and bake in the oven for 30 / 40 mins or until the chicken is cooked.

To cook the rice melt the butter in a large casserole or oven proof saucepan, that is large enough to accomadate all the rice, then add the onion and season. Cover and cook on a low heat until the onion is soft about 10 mins.

Add the rice and stir for about 2 mins until all the rice is coated with the melted butter, add the stock and season. Bring to the boil and cover and bake in oven for about 10 mins or ubntil all the liquid has been absorbed.

To Serve, toast the baguette, place the chicken and rice in bowls and squeeze the roasted garlic onto the baguette slices.

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Sounds lovely. Think i'll do this tomorrow night, have everything. I love all forms of lemon chicken

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This sounds lovely Daffy Duck. Will hopefully get to make it this week.

Sounds fab - what could I substitute the wine with, don't drink it and wouldn't have it here.

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Bicky wouldnt bother with anything else I dont always add it and tbh its lovely without!

I am making it tues as we had roast chicken today so giving us a break from chicken tmrw.

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Great mrs, thanks!! Will make it this week

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Maybe stock instead of wine? Or sherry or vermouth?

Is this very garlicy? Normally I love garlic but at the min it's a no go

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The garlic roasts Kimbaby so it loses its pungency, because you leave it in its skins you can ignore and not eat, but it does add flavour.

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Doing this tonight, looking forward to it.

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Well this was gorgeous - I licked the plate clean! The sauce was fab and went so well with the pilaf rice.

I loved roasted garlic and it gave the sauce a great flavour. I didn't go for any bread with it and I'm sorry I didn't as I would have loved it to mop up the sauce! KImbaby, it's not garlicy at all.

So easy to cook but sooooooooooooooooo tasty! Reckon it would taste good with roast potatoes and you can use any piece of chicken with it. I used legs and the meat fell away from the bone it was that tender.

Big thumbs up from me.

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Made this tonight thought it was nice but a little bland I'm afraid, I dudnt have much black pepper left that may have been what i was missing.

Really loved the rice tho - stirred in some sliced almonds too - mt god the amount of it though! I've it portioned in tubs to freeze will be very handy.

I used a whole chicken and had great fun with my new cleaver chopping it up!

I also thought there was too much stock or maybe it just didn't reduce a lot? If I was making it again I'd reduce it after being in oven.

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Made this tonight and thought it was very tasty
Used chicken breasts and instead of rice, served it with carrots and roasties
Very easy to make and eat !!!

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We had this tonight. It was YUM! So quick and easy and so very tasty. I had all the ingredients too, which is always a plus. I could have eaten the whole pot of rice.

It will definitely be made again, over and over.

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Could i cook this with chicken fillets? sounds yummy but my cooking skills wouldnt be the best unfortunatly.

I made this last week and forgot to update.

It was really lovely, easy and tasty. DH also liked it, the kids were a bit more dubious but I'm used to that at this stage! They loved the rice though.

Thanks for posting Daffy Duck.

Eta: Littleking, you could do it with fillets but it probably wouldn't take as long.

so glad ye all liked it, its so easy and tasty!

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I made this for dinner tonight , was definatly a winner !

At the moment I am trying to get a set of meals they all all eat, and this is definatly one of them .

Maria x

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Still playing catch up here This was gorgeous!!!! Maybe a bit too much stock but the flavour was superb. Will definitely make it again and again.

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Made this last night and it was really tasty. I left the lid off for the last 10 minutes and it thickened the sauce so it was lovely over the chicken and rice. I also threw in a few handfuls of spinach in the last few minutes.

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Great idea on the spinach NewMrs nice way to add some greens to it.

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