Roasted Chicken, Vegetables and Potatoes

Inspired By Elia Aboumrad of Top Chef Season 2. This is a variation of her recipe from that show - which can be found on Bravo's own blog: http://www.bravotv.com/blogs/cookbook-chronicles/elia-aboumrads-proud-roasted-chicken-with-vegetables

Elia Aboumrad also coincidentally or not happens to be the same middle name as our daughter Jasmine!

Our version of this dish is shown here. We followed Elias recipe pretty closely. We went to Winco and bought a 6 pound organic roasting chicken. We filled our bird with onions and herbs and arranged it in a roasting pan. We smeared butter all over the outside of the chicken and rubbed in a generous amount of salt & pepper. I like my chicken well seasoned, but the recipe is pretty forgiving.


Next we chopped up carrots and zucchini. We quartered some mushrooms and made some potatoe wedges. One thing I can tell you about this recipe is that the carrots come out so sweet, you can't help but want to make a lot of carrots. Next we melted a stick of butter and poured it all over the chopped vegetables in a large bowl. We seasoned with salt and pepper and then arranged them in a roasting pan with the chicken. 500 Degrees for an hour to an hour and a half (check on it at about an hour).