Quick Sunday Roast Chicken Dinner Cooked In 45 mins

So I'm not going to parboil the potatoes like a traditional roast, we're going to get this going really quickly. Go into a large pan or roasting tray, leaving the skin on will save you time, it's more nutritious and actually it's really delicious, you get a nice nutty flavour from that. Now, cut the peppers up the same size as the potatoes. Nice pinch of salt, pepper in, just a little olive oil. This is just going to coat the seasoning around the peppers and the potatoes. I've got a 1.5 kilo chicken here, absolutely beautiful and I'm going to make a paste first to flavour that. So go in with one tablespoon of vinegar, then the same amount of olive oil. This is smoked paprika. I'm going to put in one tablespoon, a good pinch of salt and pepper and then just mix it up with your hands. This is a really fantastic way to make things utterly delicious. Now, with the chicken I want to show you a preparation that is going to speed up the cooking time by about 30-40%. Run the knife very carefully down the back and then we can open this out and rub that paste into the legs, the breasts, the wings, on the underside of this carcass here and then when we start roasting that chicken and the drippings from the skin and the bones go on the potatoes and the peppers, we're going to create the most amazing flavours. So big flavour doesn't have to cost loads of time or money. Right, let's have a proper clean down and then let's get this in the oven. I've got the oven preheated to 200 degrees. Cut the chicken, lay it on the top of the bars, just like that. It's going to rain down on these potatoes and I'll just come in halfway through, give it a little shake. But that's going to cook really quickly, 45 minutes and good things are going to happen very fast. So the chicken's been roasting for about 40 minutes. What I want to do now is just a last minute flourish. I'm going to use thyme. Put that in the fat and you need lovely fats to transmit the flavour of the herb. So back in the oven, just for 5 minutes. This smells incredible. Come on, absolutely delightful. What I love about these potatoes is they're not a classic roast potato. So you've got peppers and then you've got a lovely chunk of thigh meat there. You can see how juicy that is. Let's just take that beautiful breast meat, like that, look at that, just pearly white, beautiful meat. Come on, let's have a try. Mmm. The sweetness of the pepper is amazing but then complemented with the smoked paprika just gives it this big flavour. That my friends is a combination. 5 ingredients working really, really hard. How smells amazing. A really surprising dish that's like sunshine on a plate. Minimising ingredients and cooking time is going to be good for your wallet too. So, what are you waiting for? Go on.