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    Roasted Massaman Chicken

    Updated: Jun 22nd 2021 • Published: Oct 11th 2016 • 6 Comments

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    Sweet, juicy chicken with the wonderful flavour of Thai massaman curry, served with some delicious roasted potatoes, plain rice and a rich Thai gravy. This is roast dinner with a booster pack on!

    Sweet, juicy chicken with the wonderful flavour of Thai massaman curry, served with some delicious roasted potatoes, plain rice and a rich Thai gravy. This is roast dinner with a booster pack on!

    A few weeks back I shared my Massaman Curry Paste with you, planning to share this recipe for roasted massaman chicken within a few days. Then the school holidays happened, rain happened, hail happened and somehow this chicken came and went. Which makes me sad as chicken this good should never just come and go.

    Sweet, juicy chicken with the wonderful flavour of Thai massaman curry, served with some delicious roasted potatoes, plain rice and a rich Thai gravy. This is roast dinner with a booster pack on!

    This is a dish to be celebrated as it is beautiful, delicious and falls well and truely into my favourite way to eat roast dinners....i.e not like roast dinners at all. I might have mentioned once or twice that I am not a big, traditional carvery style roast dinner fan. Once or twice maybe??? 😳

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    And I am sure it is in plenty of other posts 😉

    Sweet, juicy chicken with the wonderful flavour of Thai massaman curry, served with some delicious roasted potatoes, plain rice and a rich Thai gravy. This is roast dinner with a booster pack on!

    So yes, whilst roast dinner with all the trimmings isn't my favourite, roast chicken is a firm favourite. I love it so much that a couple of weeks back I created a roast chicken roundup of 19 slightly different ways to roast a chicken!

    Sweet, juicy chicken with the wonderful flavour of Thai massaman curry, served with some delicious roasted potatoes, plain rice and a rich Thai gravy. This is roast dinner with a booster pack on! | Sprinkles and Sprouts

    Anyway, back to the curry!!! The chicken is generously coated in curry paste, roasted with potatoes and some stock to make it super juicy. Then whilst the chicken rest you make a coconut gravy that is perfect with the potatoes and some plain rice.

    Sweet, juicy chicken with the wonderful flavour of Thai massaman curry, served with some delicious roasted potatoes, plain rice and a rich Thai gravy. This is roast dinner with a booster pack on!

    I sometimes save the potatoes, add some baby peas to the massaman gravy and serve just chicken, rice and gravy. Then the cold potatoes are amazing, sliced and fried off the following day with a egg. The breakfast of champions! So good!

    So if you are a bit of a roast chicken fan, but want something a little different then give this a go, I promise you won't be disappointed.


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    Sweet, juicy chicken with the wonderful flavour of Thai massaman curry, served with some delicious roasted potatoes, plain rice and a rich Thai gravy. This is roast dinner with a booster pack on! | Sprinkles and Sprouts
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    Massaman Roasted Chicken

    Sweet, juicy chicken with the wonderful flavour of Thai massaman curry, served with some delicious roasted potatoes, plain rice and a rich Thai gravy. This is roast dinner with a booster pack on!
    Prep Time5 mins
    Cook Time1 hr 15 mins
    Total Time1 hr 20 mins
    Servings: 5
    Author: Claire | Sprinkle and Sprouts
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    Ingredients

    • 4 garlic cloves
    • 1 lime
    • whole chicken (1.5-1.8kg)
    • ¼ cup /70g/2½ oz Massaman curry paste (Get my homemade recipe here)
    • 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
    • 500 g baby new potatoes
    • 250 ml /1 cup chicken stock
    • 400 ml /14fl oz can coconut milk
    • 1 teaspoon brown sugar
    • 1 tablespoon fish sauce
    • fresh coriander (garnish)

    Instructions

    • Pre-heat the oven to 200ºC/390ºF
    • Give the garlic cloves a bash with a knife and then put them into the cavity of the chicken, along with half the lime.
    • Tie the legs together with some string or cooking twine. Then place the chicken in a deep, large metal roasting tin.
    • Mix 2 teaspoon of the curry paste with the oil and rub it all over the chicken.
    • Place the potatoes around the chicken (I leave them whole), pour over the chicken stock and then loosely cover the tin with foil.
    • Roast for 30 minutes, then remove the tin foil and cook for a further 40 minutes.
    • Take the chicken out of the tin and set it aside to rest.
    • Put the tin with the potatoes in, on the hob and add in the remaining curry paste, the coconut milk, brown sugar and fish sauce.
    • Stir well and cook for 5 minutes until it has thickened slightly.
    • Serve the chicken with the massaman gravy, the potatoes and some plain boiled rice.
    • Garnish with fresh coriander and the remaining lime.
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    Recipe Adapted from BBC Good Food

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    1. marie says

      June 08, 2019 at 1:23 am

      When i roast chicken i use the fat/oils to baste but then drain off and discard. This recipe combines all of the oil/fat from a whole chicken with stock, coconut milk etc to form the gravy. I couldn’t bare to cook it in this way, so just used the massaman paste to coat the chicken and allowed it to crust. i made a separate gravy with coconut milk, some of the juices and oil and it was good. A cup and a half less chicken fat in the gravy has to make sense?

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      • Claire McEwen says

        June 10, 2019 at 6:22 am

        I am surprised you are getting a cup and a half of fat off a roast chicken, I usually get around 2 tablespoons of fat and then some juices. But I think if there is over a cup of fat then tipping it off sounds like a good idea!

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    2. Dorothy Dunton says

      October 15, 2016 at 8:27 am

      Ni Claire! NO you cannot send me curry paste!!! Girl, I appreciate the thought but no! I can find the ingredients to make it or I can find it on the internet. 🙂 Nagi called me yesterday driving down the highway on her way to go camping! We are working on a Thanksgiving menu for a post she wants to do in November. I am so fortunate to have become friends with both of you, y'all make my heart happy!

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      • Claire McEwen says

        October 15, 2016 at 1:01 pm

        Hehe xx

        And I am thankful every day for you Dorothy, I love your comments 🙂 x

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    3. Dorothy Dunton says

      October 11, 2016 at 10:24 pm

      Hi Claire! I do love a good roast chicken and this one looks wonderful! A while back Nagi sent me a tub of Gochujang. Would that be an acceptable substitute for the Massaman curry? I found a recipe just yesterday for ribs with a Gochujang that sounds pretty tasty although I think I will start with less Gochujang as tastes don't run to really spicy.

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      • Claire McEwen says

        October 15, 2016 at 7:21 am

        Ooooh I wonder if I can send you Massaman Curry paste????

        Gochujang is quite different, but I am thinking it will make a fabulous roast chicken! I would definitely use less as it is pretty spicy and has a much more pungent taste.

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