Roast Chicken With Blood Orange Fennel Salad Recipes

BLOOD ORANGE SALAD

Steps:

• Lightly pickle onion: Mix sugar and vinegar, then add onion and set aside for 15 minutes to lightly pickle (vinegar should just about cover onion). Drain, reserve pickling vinegar.
• Slice oranges, reserve juice: Cut rind from oranges, then slice into rounds. Reserve all juice on cutting board - you want around 2 teaspoons (if you're short, sacrifice a slice or two).
• Blood Orange Drizzle Dressing: Measure out 2 tsp pickling vinegar, shake/whisk with the reserved 2 tsp juice, 2 tbsp EVOO with a pinch of salt and pepper.
• Lightly dress fennel: Toss fennel in 1 tbsp onion pickling juice, remaining 2 tbsp olive oil, 1/4 tsp salt and 1/8 tsp pepper.
• Assembling: Place 1/2 orange rounds on plate. Pile over 2/3 the fennel, litter with onion, parsley, place half remaining orange slices on top. Top with remaining fennel, oranges then onion. Sprinkle with parsley leaves. Just before serving, drizzle over the Blood Orange Dressing, mainly on the oranges so it doesn't stain the fennel too much. Serve immediately!

ORANGE FENNEL SALAD

Steps:

• Cut the fronds from the fennel bulbs and reserve some of the feathery leaves for later. Cut each fennel bulb in half and remove the cores with a sharp knife.
• Fit a food processor with the thinnest slicing blade. Cut the fennel bulbs into wedges and place horizontally into the feed tube. Process in batches. Peel each orange, remove the pith with a knife, and slice. Set aside.
• For the dressing: Whisk together the oil, juice, 1 teaspoon salt and the pepper in a small bowl. Place the fennel slices, oranges slices and arugula in a large bowl. Pour the dressing over the salad and toss together. Sprinkle with salt and add some fennel fronds for decoration.

FENNEL SALAD WITH BLOOD ORANGES

Steps:

• Whisk 2 tablespoons white balsamic vinegar with 1/4 cup olive oil in a large bowl; season with salt and pepper. Add 1 thinly sliced fennel bulb and 1 tablespoon chopped fronds, 2 segmented blood oranges, 2 cups baby kale and 1/4 cup each thinly sliced red onion and chopped toasted hazelnuts; toss. Top with crumbled gorgonzola.

ROAST CHICKEN WITH BLOOD ORANGE-FENNEL SALAD

Steps:

• Make the chicken: Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Peel 2 garlic cloves and transfer to a mini food processor; set the rest of the head of garlic aside. Grate the blood orange zest into the food processor (set the oranges aside for the salad). Pulse until the garlic is finely chopped. Add the parsley, sage, red pepper flakes, 1 teaspoon salt and a few grinds of pepper; pulse, scraping down the food processor as needed, until the herbs are finely chopped. Add the butter and pulse to combine.
• Pat the chicken dry with paper towels. Gently slide your fingers under the skin on the breasts and legs to loosen it. Spread the orange-herb butter under the skin. Season the inside of the chicken with salt and pepper, then stuff the rest of the garlic head into the cavity. Tuck the wings under the chicken and tie the legs together with twine.
• Set a rack in a large roasting pan; put the chicken on the rack and rub with olive oil. Season generously with salt and pepper. Roast 30 minutes, then rotate the pan and reduce the oven temperature to 350 degrees F. Continue roasting until the skin is golden brown and a thermometer inserted into the thigh registers 165 degrees F, about 1 hour. Let rest in the pan 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, make the salad: Fill a large bowl with ice water. Thinly slice the fennel (use a mandoline if you have one) and add to the ice water; let sit 20 minutes. Combine the fennel fronds, beans, olive oil, 1/2 teaspoon salt and a few grinds of pepper in a large bowl. Grate the zest of 1 blood orange into the bowl; set aside.
• Remove the peel and pith from all 6 blood oranges using a paring knife. Halve the oranges and thinly slice. Drain the fennel and dry in a salad spinner. Refrigerate the oranges and fennel until ready to use.
• Transfer the chicken to a board. Add the fennel, blood oranges, olives, parsley and mint to the bowl with the beans. Season with salt and pepper and toss. Serve with the chicken.

ROAST CHICKEN WITH FENNEL

Steps:

• Heat oven to 450 degrees. Drizzle bottom of shallow roasting pan or baking sheet with about half the olive oil and cover it with a layer of the fennel. Overlap pieces if necessary but use whole pan. Drizzle remaining oil over fennel and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Roast about 10 minutes. Meanwhile, cut up chicken if necessary and sprinkle the pieces with salt and pepper.
• Top fennel with the chicken parts, skin side up. Ideally, you'll have a layer of fennel pretty much covered by a layer of chicken, but it's fine if some of the fennel roasts uncovered. Spoon some of the oil from bottom of pan over chicken. If there is not enough, drizzle additional olive oil over the chicken. Roast about 15 minutes, then baste chicken with pan drippings and rotate the pan. If necessary, adjust oven temperature so chicken browns but does not burn.
• The chicken will be done in about 30 minutes. Serve each piece with some fennel and a little of the pan juices spooned over, garnished with parsley and a lemon wedge.

ROASTED CARROT, SPELT, FENNEL & BLOOD ORANGE SALAD

Steps:

• Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and cook the spelt with the stock cube following pack instructions - don't overcook it, as it should still have a little nutty bite. When the spelt is done, drain it very well and toss on a platter with 1 tbsp of the extra virgin olive oil to stop it from sticking together too much.
• Meanwhile, toss the carrots with the olive oil, blood orange zest and some seasoning in a roasting tin, then roast for 15 mins. Carefully stir through half the honey with the fennel. Continue roasting for another 10 mins, then cool for 5 mins. Cut away the pith and peel from the 2 zested oranges, then roughly chop or slice.
• Whisk together the remaining extra virgin olive oil, 1 tsp honey, red wine vinegar and the blood orange juice with some seasoning. Scrape the roasted carrots and fennel plus any cooking juices on top of the spelt, along with the orange chunks, red onion, herbs and olives. Drizzle over the dressing and toss everything together well. The salad will happily hold at room temperature for a few hours, but the spelt will soak up the dressing - so if you're making it ahead, add half the dressing when assembling and stir through the rest just before you serve it. As you serve, stir through the parsley, if you like.

CHICKEN & ORANGE SALAD

Steps:

• Cook the beans in a large pan of boiling salted water for 4-5 mins. Cool under cold water and put in a bowl. Finely slice the fennel bulb, cutting away the core.
• Peel and slice the avocado and add to bowl with watercress. Peel the oranges, cut out the segments and add to bowl. Squeeze the rest of the orange juice into a bowl and mix with the olive oil to make a dressing. Toss salad in the dressing, scatter over chicken, then serve.

BLOOD ORANGE AND FENNEL SALAD

Steps:

• Use a sharp knife to remove orange peel.
• Cut oranges into segments, removing all the white pith.
• Slice end from fennel and remove shoots from top (reserve shoots).
• If exterior of fennel bulb is marred or discoloured, peel with a vegetable peeler.
• Cut in half and thinly slice.
• In a small bowl, whisk together vinegar, basil, garlic, salt and pepper; then whisk in oil.
• Arrange fennel slices and orange segments on individual serving dishes.
• Drizzle dressing over salads and garnish with reserved fennel fronds.

ROAST CHICKEN WITH FENNEL & OLIVES

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Toss 2 tbsp of the oil with the fennel and garlic and spread out on a tray. Rub the chicken with a further 2 tbsp oil, push the lemon halves and thyme into the carcass and season the skin generously. Sit the chicken in the tin and roast for 1 hr, then stir through the tomatoes and olives, season and return to the oven for 20-25 mins, or until the chicken is cooked through. To check, pierce the thigh with a skewer - the juices should run clear.
• Cook the polenta following pack instructions, then stir through the remaining olive oil and parmesan and season to taste. Carve the chicken and serve with the tomato sauce and cheesy polenta.