Steam Combi Recipe: Greek Inspired Lemon and Garlic Roast Chicken and Potatoes

This very easy recipe is aided even further with the use of your ovens core temperature sensor (Meat probe) to ensure the chicken is perfectly cooked.
The stock added to this dish is not to enhance the moisture content of the meat, but is soaked up by the potatoes giving them a delicous full flavoured soft centre while the outer edges and crisped and brown.

Recipe written by Lauren Bavin, Cooking Technology Expert Auckland.

METHOD: 

1. Preheat oven to 200 C Hot air + Medium Humidity Steam (50%)
2. Rub chicken all over with olive oil.
3. Cut the garlic heads in half horizontally and use one to rub all over the chicken skin .
4. Cut one lemon in half and squeeze the juice from one half all over the breast side of the chicken.
5. Place the other half of the lemon and half a garlic heat, and half the thyme into the chickens cavity.
6. Cut the remaining lemons into quarters
7. Cut the potatoes in half horizontally and then cut each half into 3 wedges.
8. Arrange around the chicken in a roasting dish with the garlic halves and lemon quarters and the remaining thyme.
9. Sprinkle the oregano generously over the chicken and potatoes.
10. Pour in the chicken stock.
11. Season well with salt and pepper
12. Insert the ovens culisensor (Meat probe) into the thickest part of the breast making sure you pull out slightly from the bone.
13. Insert the roasting dish on the middle shelf of the oven and connect the probe to the oven
14. Set the oven to Steam Combi level 2 200C and set the probe temperature to 65C.
15. When 65C has been reached, change the function to Fan Assisted Grill and set the probe to 75C
16. When 75C has been reached, remove from oven and remove chicken from roasting  dish to rest in a warm place and return potatoes to oven for a further 6 minutes using Fan assisted Grill, 210C  
17. If you have a Smeg Oven you can set these stages up in advance using  Multistep Cooking. Instead of putting in a cooking time click the probe icon and choose the relevant core temperature for each stage.

Enjoy! this is wonderful served with a Greek or a Green Salad!