Can I serve a Roast Chicken for a Dinner Party?

What Sides to serve with Roast Chicken?

Is Roast Chicken Healthy?

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Recipes for Roast Chicken are one of the most popular searches on the internet. At the time of writing there was about 10 800 000 results on Google Search.

The reason is simple, easily available, adapted as a dish in all countries, no religious stigma attached to it. Even though people have their preferences as to the thigh or the breast, a Roast Chicken is loved by everyone. 

Most people have a picture in their mind of great family reunions where Roast Chicken was served by their mother.

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Another advantage of Roast Chicken is that you can make 2 or 3 at the same time in the oven and use the extra one(s) for all kind of dishes, chop it in a food processor, add some mayo and mustard and sunday lunch is served with delicious toasted chicken Mayo. Cut it into pieces and mix it with vegetables and spices and a great Chicken Curry will be made in less than 1/2 hour. Mix it with a Bechamel Sauce and a Chicken Pasta is made that can be frozen and just heated before serving. The options are limitless.

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As for side dishes, some were made to serve with Roast Chicken, from the obvious Roast Potatoes, there are a number of vegetable dishes that can be prepared in advance and roasted together with the chicken.

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Is Roast Chicken Healthy? The heat of the oven melt most of the fat from the chicken. Please do not remove the skin which has lost all its fat but has all the flavour of the herbs and spices to become the tastier part of the chicken, thigh or breast!! The trick is not to place the potatoes or any other dish under the chicken to collect all the dripping fat. I know.... potatoes do taste delicious with the fat of the roast chicken, but in life one has to make choices and its up to you to decide.

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A Soup as a Starter. 

A Main Course with Roast Chicken, Roast Potatoes and Baked Zucchini as a side-dish.

An Upside Down Apple Cake for Dessert.