Garlic chicken

This honestly is the very first time I have prepared a whole chicken! Shameful to admit I have been more of a chicken breast person. Until now!

This recipe is very simple, but also very tasteful! How? Like this:

Garlic chicken with mushrooms

Dinner for 3/4

The chicken

3 bulbs of garlic

Handful fresh thyme leaves

1 organic chicken (around 1.5 kilo’s)

1 tbsp. olive oil

100 gr mushrooms, halved

The mushrooms

500 gr mixed mushrooms

1 tbsp. olive oil

Preheat your oven on 175C. Cut the garlic bulbs horizontally in half. Keep the lower part, while peeling and chopping the tops. Mix the garlic with the fresh thyme and a pinch of salt & pepper. Rub the inside of the chicken with half of the garlic mixture, rub the outside with olive oil, salt & pepper. Put the chicken in a roasting pan together with the mushrooms and the other halves of the garlic. Put in the oven for about an hour and a half.

Mix the mushrooms in another baking tray, with the leftover garlic mixture and the olive oil. Add to the oven for the last fifteen minutes of the baking time.

Serve with bread, to soak up the delicious gravy and a green salad or, as we did, green beans