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Roast chicken with mustard, marmalade, parsnips & orange

Serves 4

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp marmalade
  • 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
  • 2 garlic cloves, crushed
  • 1 tbsp clear honey
  • 500g new potatoes, halved
  • 1 parnsip, peeled and cut into 6-8 pieces
  • 1 red onion, peeled and cut into 8 wedges
  • 1 orange, cut into 8 wedges
  • 8 skin-on, bone-in chicken thighs (~1kg)
  • 2 rosemary sprigs, torn
  • 150g green beans

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 180C fan.
  2. Mix the marmalade, mustard, oil, vinegar, garlic and honey with a good pinch of salt and a grind of black pepper in a bowl.
  3. Tip the potatoes, parsnips, onion and orange wedges into a roasting tin.
  4. Pour over half the marmalade mixture and toss together. Then roast for 25 mins.
  5. Meanwhilew tip the chicken into a bowl with the remaining marinade and toss well to coat the chicken.
  6. Rmeove the tin from the oven and give it a good shake. Nestle in the rosemary sprigs, then arrange the chicken, skin-side up on top. Sprinkle with salt and return the tin to the oven then roast for 40 mins.
  7. Rub the green beans with a little olive oil. Add to the tin then return the oven for a final 10 minutes.