Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, one skillet roast chicken and pier potatoes. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

One Skillet Roast Chicken and Pier Potatoes is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. One Skillet Roast Chicken and Pier Potatoes is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook one skillet roast chicken and pier potatoes using 13 ingredients and 21 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make One Skillet Roast Chicken and Pier Potatoes:

1. Get potatoes
2. Prepare 1 tbsp vegetable oil
3. Take 1 1/2 tsp salt, or less depending on your salt preference
4. Make ready 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
5. Make ready 2 lb potatoes, peeled if you desire
6. Get chicken
7. Prepare 1 each 4-5 pound whole chicken
8. Take 2 tbsp vegetable oil
9. Take 1 tbsp lemon juice or vinegar
10. Get 1 tsp dried thyme
11. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp paprika (smoked if you have it)
12. Make ready 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
13. Prepare 1 tsp salt

Instructions to make One Skillet Roast Chicken and Pier Potatoes:

1. Put oven rack in lower middle slot. Preheat oven to 400°F
2. Peel potatoes if desired, slice into 1 inch thick slices
3. Mix potato marinade (first 3 ingredients)
4. Toss potatoes in marinade
5. Heat oven proof skillet on medium heat
6. Clean chicken, remove giblets (not used in this preparation) pat chicken dry
7. Mix all chicken rub ingredients (everything after the chicken in the list)
8. Place potatoes in hot skillet largest side down do not turn (we are Browning one side only), pour all potato marinade into the skillet.
9. Rub chicken rub all over chicken, under the skin if you can
10. Fold wing tips under
11. Either tie the drumsticks together, or as I did here cut a small slit in the skin of the side, and put the end of the drum stick in that hole to hold it
12. Once potatoes get a slight brown to them on one side only, turn off heat
13. Place chicken on top of potatoes, breast side up
14. Place skillet in oven, roast until breast reads 165°F. About 1 hour 10 minutes for 4 pound bird, about 1 hour 30 minutes for a 5 pound bird.
15. Remove skillet from oven. Place chicken on a clean plate or cutting board. Tent with foil.
16. Cover potatoes in skillet, return to oven. I usually turn my oven off at this point, there is enough heat in there.
17. Wait 15-20 minutes to let the chicken rest.
18. Carve chicken as desired.
19. Remove skillet from oven. Uncover.
20. Serve potatoes with the dark side (browned side) down. They should have a soft creamy top, with a crisp or slightly chewy bottom.
21. NOTE - a 12 inch skillet is ideal for this, but the only one I had oven proof over 350°F was this 10 inch cast iron. I could only fit about 1 1/2 medium potatoes on it.

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