This is an easy elegant meal that is perfect for Sunday dinner. Prep takes maybe 20 minutes, then throw it in the oven and in about an hour dinner is served.
This is what you need: One baking chicken about 5 pounds
5 rosemary sprigs
2 garlic cloves
2 pounds of potatoes
Olive oil
Kosher Salt
Pepper
First remove any giblets from inside the chicken. Rinse and pat the chicken dry with paper towels. Place the chicken on the Wolf Steam Oven's solid pan lined with a silpat or tinfoil or use a roasting pan. Then tuck back the wings, and put two cloves of garlic into the cavity along with two sprigs of fresh rosemary.
Tie the legs together with chicken twine. Chop the rest of the rosemary and set it aside.
Drizzle 1-2 TBS olive oil on the chicken then sprinkle with salt, pepper, and half the rosemary you chopped. The chicken is ready to go. Peel and chop the potatoes into cubes about 2 inches square.
Place the potatoes into a ziplock bag. Add 2 TBS olive oil, 1 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp pepper and the rest of the rosemary.
Mix them together in the bag then pour them around the chicken, tucking them as close to it as you can - if they are out, they get too brown.
Put it all in the steam oven. Place one end of the oven probe into the chicken and the other into the chicken. They say that it should be in the thigh, but sometimes I like to put it in the thickest part of the breast all the way to the bone, then pull back a bit so that it will read the meat and not the bone. Cook it on the steam convection mode, at 375°,
then set the probe temperature to 170°. You do this by pressing the temperature button again, after setting it to 375°. It will have three lines across and you can turn the temp to 170°. This will be the probe setting. Once it reads the chicken you will just see the lines across it until it reaches 85° then it will show you the temperature of the meat. You will not see the 375° again.
The oven will beep when the selected temperature is reached. For a 5 pound chicken it generally takes a little over an hour. You might want to stir your potatoes after about 45 minutes. You could always do your potatoes in a separate pan, but I like them by the chicken so they soak up some of the chicken drippings. Yummy.
