Moroccan Style Pot Roast Chicken

I was looking for an easy roast chicken recipe, low carb, low gluten and low number of dishes and this is what I came up with.  Super tasty.

Ingredients

• Celery
• Sweet potato
• Other hard veg (carrot, sweet, etc.) - Optional
• Chicken
• Lemon
• Tinned tomatos
• Chickpeas (I just used tinned ones)
• Cauliflower
• Other soft veg (beans, zucchini, etc.) - Optional
• Cummin
• Paprika
• Garam masala
• Garlic

 Method

1. Pre-heat oven to 170 degrees C.
2. Chop up celery and hard veggies and fry them in a stove and oven safe pot (i.e. cast iron) with some olive oil and garlic.
3. Prep the chicken by putting the lemon inside it and rubbing some spices into the skin (you can add a little oil to help it stick) .
4. Add some spices to the veggies in the pot and cook a little longer.
5. Add the chicken on top of the bed of veggies and put in the oven with the lid on.
6. After about 40 min (or 25-30 min before the chicken is cooked if it is large) tip in the chickpeas and tomatos around the chicken and return to oven with lid on.
7. After a further 15 min add the coarsely chopped cauliflower (and other soft veggies) and return to oven with lid on.
8. Cook for a further 10-15 min until the cauliflower is cooked and serve

Chicken and Kale Filo Parcels

This dish came about because I felt like chicken, there was filo in the fridge and kale was on special...

Ingredients

• Chicken
• Kale
• Sweet potato
• Carrot
• Mixed herbs
• Grated cheese
• Filo pastry
• Butter/milk/egg (for wash)

Method

1. Pre-heat fan forced oven to 190 degrees C
2. Chop chicken and kale, both quite small/fine
3. Grate sweet potato and carrot (I didn't use a lot of either of these)
4. Fry up chicken and then add veggies and herbs and cook until kale has wilted
5.  Lay out two sheets of filo pastry together and add some mixture, sprinkle cheese on top, fold into a parcel of some sort and then place on a greased oven tray
6. Brush butter/milk/egg onto the filo package
7. Cook for about 20 min until brown

Notes:
Would probably also work with other pastry as more of a pastie.
I may also have added a chicken stock cube to the filling mixture.
A little paprika sprinkled on the packages after they have been brushed looks cool too.
I decided to try chopping the kale and grating sweet potato and carrot with a food processor and it worked ok.
I also served this with home made sweet potato wedges which were super easy and tasty.