Peasant food. Pollo e Patate. A bed of potatoes and onions tossed in olive oil and salt and pepper with chicken on top all roasted until the chicken juices cook the potatoes.
I don’t make this for the chicken. I make it for the potatoes with all that chicken juice tastiness. Though the crispy chicken skin is pretty good too.
I grew up on a variant of this where it’s served on a bed of spaghetti and peas are added to the potatoes in the last few minutes. A double starch feast.
Cost: $1.87 per person.
Oh man. Chicken cooked on top of potatoes is the move. All that flavor and fat going into the potatoes… Mmmmm.
It’s all about the chicken juice potatoes.
Chicken juice rice is also very good, especially when there is a good bit of chicken fat and gelatin.
If you put nice rub on the chicken and rosemary with the potatoes it gets even better, it is a classic no recipe, everyday food that everyone loves
Molly baz has a great gochijang version of this.
I’ve made it. It’s easy, one pan, and comes out of the oven like a dream. The potatoes have that great chicken fat flavor, but also the funky, savory heat of the gochijang.
That does seem tasty.
Aproveche!
I have done this too, it’s so good, I put olives in it.
Ooh. That sounds good. A little brine and acid to balance things. Sometimes I add parmesan on top.
Enjoy, peasant! JK
It was either this or, for the same price, a bean burrito from Taco Bell. I love those things but peasant food is good too.
