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Herb roast chicken with mashed sweet potato and green beans

An everyday dish for 2, ready in 70 minutes, around $3.75 a serving. People actually plan it with Popotam, and it's in season in October.

70mintotal
≈ $3.75a serving
554kcalper serving
30gof protein
In season in OctoberFreezes well
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Step-by-step recipe

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  1. Preheat the oven

    Turn the oven to 200 °C, convection if you have it.

  2. Prep the garlic and thyme

    Crush the 2 garlic cloves without peeling them. Strip the leaves off 2 thyme sprigs and keep the other 2 whole.

  3. Season the thighs

    In the roasting dish, rub the 2 chicken thighs with the 2 tsp of olive oil, the salt, pepper and thyme leaves. Add the crushed garlic and the 2 whole thyme sprigs around them.

  4. Roast the chicken

    Slide the dish in at 200 °C. Flip the thighs halfway through so the skin browns on both sides. The chicken is done when the juices run clear and the center hits 74 °C.

    Tip · Poke the thigh near the bone, the juices should run clear, no pink. If not, put it back in the oven for 5 to 10 min.

  5. Cook the sweet potato

    Meanwhile, peel the 300 g of sweet potato and cut it into 3 cm cubes. Drop them into a saucepan of cold salted water, bring to a boil and cook until a knife slides in with no resistance.

  6. Cook the green beans

    Trim the 160 g of green beans. Cook them in a saucepan of salted boiling water until tender but still crunchy, then drain.

  7. Mash it up

    Drain the sweet potato. Mash it with the 20 g of butter and the 6 cl of warm or cold milk until smooth. Add pepper and a little salt if needed.

    Tip · Mash the cubes well drained to avoid a watery mash, and add the milk little by little. You can squeeze the peeled roasted garlic into the mash for extra flavor.

  8. Plate up

    Take the chicken out of the oven and check it's cooked through. Serve the thighs with their juices, the roasted garlic, the mash and the green beans.

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How many calories in a serving?

One serving has about 554 kcal. 23% comes from carbs, 21% from protein and 53% from fat.

32 gCarbs
30 gProtein
33 gFat
Per serving (the dish for 2, divided by 2)
Energy554 kcal
Protein29.5 g
Carbs31.7 g
of which sugars10.5 g
Fat32.5 g
of which saturated fat12.4 g
Fiber7.3 g
Salt0.8 g

Worked out ingredient by ingredient with the ANSES Ciqual 2025 table, never written by an AI. It's an estimate: veggie sizes and brands make the numbers vary.

How much does it cost?

About $3.75 a serving, adding up the average prices of the ingredients you need to buy.

≈ $7.51for 2 people
≈ $3.75a serving

Pantry salt, oil and spices aren't counted. Your store and your brands will move the total, but the ballpark is right.

How long does it keep?

2 days in the fridge, in a closed container, once cooled within two hours. After that, into the freezer it goes.

2 daysin the fridge
Yesin the freezer, thaw it in the fridge the day before

Times Popotam uses for meal prep, based on ANSES guidance, rounded down. The details: how long cooked dishes keep.

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