One pan whole roast chicken and veg - how to avoid sweaty spuds?

[AreolaGrande]

Am just about to start cooking.

Want to do an easier version of a roast and wang it all in one roasting tray but when I've tried this before the spuds haven't been anywhere as near as good as they are when cooked in a separate tray. They've gone sweaty rather than crispy despite oven being good and hot.

I know not to over fill the tray (but there are 4 of us to feed so can't be too skimpy either) and to not have the spuds under the chicken.

Any other tips for success or are inferior spuds the price I must pay for convenience?

You cook the potatoes separately or they end up soaked in chicken grease. I never put them potatoes in with the chicken. Par-boil the spuds, a dash of olive oil, salt and pepper and stick them in a roasting tin on their own.

The only way to get crispy ones in this situation is to have a massive tray. So mine is the whole size of the oven- double the usual sized roasting tin.

Also I take the chicken and veg out at the end, Wack the oven temp up and crisp the potatoes for 5-10 mins.

If you can’t do that, I’d admit defeat either cook the potatoes or veg in a separate tin.

Chicken JUICE not grease and they're delicious done like that ,you just have to accept they'll be a bit different 😋

I take the roast out to rest, turn the oven up full to crisp the potatoes.

@cheezncrackers potatoes cooked around the chicken are the best potatoes as long as they’re crispy.

I'm afraid I bang roasties in the air fryer

I do have a humongous new roaster which might work.

Don't have an air fryer.

Want to be lazy but also want to fill my face with crispy roasties so going to try the two pronged approach of huge dish and cranking the oven up once the chook comes out.

Thanks all.

Put tin foil or a smaller pan under the chicken to catch all the juice (add to gravy). Remove chicken and juice pan when the chickens done, whack up the heat and crisp off the potatoes while meat rests and you make green veg/gravy/bread sauce/whatever.