Oven-Baked Chicken with Potatoes

Ingredients

• 2 kg chicken
• 2 kg potatoes
• 2 tomatoes
• 2 red bell peppers
• 1 carrot
• 1 onion
• 1 head of garlic
• 1/2 half a lemon with its peel
• 2 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp cinnamon
• tsp paprika
• tsp ginger
• tsp turmeric
• 2 tsp dried coriander
• 1 1/2 cups water or ice
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1/2 tsp oregano or rosemary
• mentioned as a soaking solution for the chicken white vinegar
• mentioned as a soaking solution for the chicken, and mentioned in the marinade along with ice/water water
• 1 egg to prepare garlic cream egg
• 2 tablespoons to prepare garlic cream starch
• 5 cloves to prepare garlic cream garlic
• 300 ml to prepare garlic cream oil
• mentioned for serving pickles
• mentioned for serving Aleppo chili sauce

Instructions

1. Wash and clean the chicken thoroughly in the kitchen before anything else.
2. Make slits in the chicken with a knife in the kitchen if you will cook it immediately after marinating.
3. Soak the chicken in a bowl with water, salt, and white vinegar for 15 minutes in the kitchen while you prepare the vegetables.
4. Place the tomatoes, red bell peppers, carrot, onion, head of garlic, and half a lemon with its peel in a blender bowl.
5. Add the salt, cinnamon, paprika, ginger, turmeric, dried coriander, and oregano or rosemary to the blender.
6. Add 1 1/2 cups of water or ice to the blender.
7. Add 1/2 cup of olive oil to the blender.
8. Blend the marinade well in the blender until smooth.
9. Cut the potatoes into large pieces in the kitchen.
10. Line the baking tray with parchment paper.
11. Arrange the potatoes in the tray.
12. Place the chicken on top of the potatoes in the tray.
13. Pour the marinade over the chicken and potatoes in the tray.
14. Rub the chicken and marinade together with your hands in the tray until well distributed.
15. Cover the tray with parchment paper, then seal it tightly with aluminum foil.
16. Put the tray in the oven at the highest heat, with top and bottom heat and the fan on, at the beginning.
17. Reduce the oven temperature to 200 after putting the tray in the oven.
18. Leave the tray in the oven for 1 hour.
19. Uncover the tray after 1 hour and check that the potatoes and chicken are cooked in the oven.
20. Brown the top of the chicken and potatoes in the oven using top heat only after checking.
21. Serve the dish hot with garlic cream, pickles, and Aleppo chili sauce, if desired.