Recipe: Roasted Chicken with Watercress

Ingredients

• 5 lb whole chicken
• salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
• 3 lemons - halved
• 4 sprigs thyme
• 2 sprigs rosemary
• 6 cloves garlic - crushed, unpeeled
• 1 onion - sliced
• olive oil as needed
• 1/2 cup chicken stock or broth
• 2 tbsp walnut or hazelnut oil
• 2 bunch watercress

Instructions

Step 1

Crush and unpeeled 6 cloves garlic. Set aside.
Halve 3 lemons.

Step 2

Add the crushed garlic, 4 sprigs thyme, 2 sprigs rosemary, Lemons juice,
salt and fresh ground black pepper into a large bowl. Mix well.

Step 3

Put the chicken into the bowl, rub the chicken around with the mixture.
Then stuff the chicken with the mixture. Leave it with breast side down.

Step 4

Peel and slice the onion. Spread the onion slices on a roasting pan.
Then put the chicken on the top. Tuck the chicken wings into the chicken body.
Use a string to tie the chicken legs together.

Step 5

Drizzle the chicken with the juice in the bowl and olive oil.
Preheat oven to 400F, and roast the chicken for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Step 6

Meanwhile, Put 2 bunch watercress into a large bowl.

Step 7

After the chicken is done, put the chicken into a large bowl, let rest at least 10 minutes.

Step 8

pull the fat out of the roasting pan. Now the pan is still very hot.
Add 1/2 cup chicken stock or broth into the pan, rub off the sticking things in the pan.
Strain the mixture in the pan on a bowl. We can get the sauce in the bowl.
add in juice of half lemon, some salt and 2 tbsp walnut or hazelnut oil. Mix well.

Step 9

Now cut and carve the chicken.
Put some chicken shred into the watercress bowl. Pour in some sauce.
Stir well.
Then place the watercress on a plate, and place chicken pieces on the top of the watercress. Spoon some sauce on the chicken pieces.