Easy Dinner Recipes: Roast Chicken and Roasted root vegetables

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Easy dinner recipes make life much easier for us.

As we want to make healthy food choices for ourselves and our families, busy lives sometimes makes it difficult. With a few simple recipes dinner in your recipe box is a snap.

This is a complete meal that bakes in the oven at the same time. With a little preparation can go all the food in the oven and pop to spend time doing other things to do than look and mix. As in a little 'and dinner ready. It could not be easier or more delicious.

Roast chicken

1 whole chicken, about 3 kg

Butter

Salt and pepper

1 head of garlic (optional) with external paper
Layers removed

Preheat the oven heat to 375 ° C

Wash and dry the chicken. Rinse and dry the inside cavity as well. Salt and pepper the cavity and insert the head of garlic.

Take your finger and slide it under the skin of the breast. Place swabOf butter in 2 or 3 seats on each side of the chest under the skin. It takes about 2 grams of softened butter and spread over the chicken with your fingers. Salt and pepper to taste to the outside of chicken.

Place the chicken in a roasting pan covered. Roast at 375 º C for about 1 1 / 2 hour turns from time to time to keep it moist.

Carve and serve.

Roasted Root Vegetables

Potatoes, peeled and sliced 2 "wedges

Sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into pieces or slicestransversely into slices

Sweet onions, peeled and cut into wedges

Carrots, peeled and cut into long, thick sticks

Olive oil or vegetable oil

1 teaspoon dried rosemary

Salt and pepper

Begin to prepare the vegetables as soon as the chicken in the oven.

Oil a 13 "x9" glass baking dish. Place chopped vegetables in the casserole.

Drizzle oil over vegetables and stir to coat all. Salt and pepper and vegetables.Sprinkle dried rosemary over them.

When the chicken has been in the oven for 30 minutes, put the vegetables on fried vegetables, uncovered for about 1 hour, until tender. The onions are a bit 'nice and caramelized and sweet.

Note: Vary the vegetables in the mix. Parsnip would be nice, so good. You can also use a little 'of garlic, if you're a garlic lover.

That's it! Dinner is ready!