Roasted Chicken on a Bed of Winter Vegetables

Ingredients

• 3.5 ;bs broiler-fryer
• 1 lemon sliced
• 1 medium onion peeled and quartered
• 3 sprigs thyme
• 1 package kosher or coarse salt and freshly ground black pep
• 3 medium leeks white part only, washed carefully and thinly sliced
• 2 whole carrots peeled and cut into thin sticks or rounds
• 6 whole red potatoes quartered
• 6 medium turnips 2 medium rutabaga or 4 medium parsnips, peeled and cut into thi
• 12 ounces dry white wine (1 1/2 cups)
• 1 14-oz can chicken broth

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 425F.
2. Rinse chicken thoroughly. Put lemon, onion and thyme into the cavity of the chicken. Sprinkle the skin of the chicken liberally with salt and pepper. Scatter the leeks, carrots, potatoes, turnips and/or rutabaga over the bottom of a roasting pan. Sprinkle the vegetables with salt and pepper. Set the chicken on top of the vegetables. Pour white wine and chicken broth over chicken and vegetables.
3. Roast the chicken for 1 hour until the skin is browned, the juices at the joint of the thigh run clear when pierced with a knife, and a thermometer inserted into the flesh of the thigh registers 180F. Stir vegetables and baste chicken with juices occasionally during cooking.
4. Transfer the chicken to a cutting board. Lift the vegetables into a serving bowl and pour or ladle the juices into a pitcher or gravy boat. Carve the chicken and serve with vegetable juices.