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Roast spatchcock with lemon and garlic butter

Australian Gourmet Traveller fast recipe for roast spatchcock with lemon and garlic butter.

By Emma Knowles
  • Serves 4
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Roast spatchcock with lemon and garlic butter

Ingredients

  • 2 bunches Dutch carrots, trimmed, halved
  • 1½ tbsp olive oil
  • Finely grated rind and juice of 2 lemons
  • 2 tbsp thyme
  • 100 gm softened butter
  • 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • 4 spatchcock (500gm each), butterflied
  • 3 leeks, trimmed and quartered
  • To serve: flat-leaf parsley

Method

Main
  • 1
    Preheat oven to 220C. Combine carrot, oil, half the rind and half the thyme in a large roasting pan, season to taste and place in oven while you prepare the spatchcock.
  • 2
    Combine butter, garlic, remaining rind and thyme in a small bowl, season to taste. Heat half the garlic butter in a frying pan over medium-high heat, add spatchcock skin-side down and cook until browned (2-3 minutes).
  • 3
    Add leek to roasting pan, dollop vegetables with remaining garlic butter, then place a wire rack over pan. Place spatchcock skin-side up on rack and roast, basting occasionally with remaining garlic butter, until spatchcock are cooked through and vegetables are tender (15-20 minutes). Stir parsley and lemon juice through vegetables, season to taste. Halve spatchcock and serve hot with vegetables and pan juices.

Notes

This recipe is from the August 2011 issue of .

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