To ask your ultimate roast chicken accompaniments...

[Newbie1999]

Making a roast next week. I’m a pretty good cook but rarely cook roasts. Want it to be gooood. Any tips, particularly for the sides?

NO CHEESE WITH GRAVY

Roast carrots and parsnips.
Stuffed bacon rolls.
Gravy made with all the roasting juices.

Creamed spinach
Buttered cabbage

I have started roasting cauliflower in a hot oven with olive oil and seasoning and it is a revelation.

If you’re really going all out, then sage, onion & sausage meat stuffing. Roast potatoes. Gravy. Never mash - pointless filler when you could have roasties. I love gratin dauphinois with beef or lamb but not with chicken; it’s too much white on the plate, I think.

Nobody in my family likes turkey so we have a cockerel at Christmas and I can confirm from extensive research that all of the usual trimmings go absolutely beautifully.

Cheese sauce does NOT belong on a roast, the thought of it mixing with gravy....bleurgh

Oat and onion stuffing, baked in a separate dish ie not stuffed into the bird. Chopped rolled Oates, finely chopped onion and suet baked for 30 mins. Beautiful.

@shitinmyhandsandclap

Cheese sauce does NOT belong on a roast, the thought of it mixing with gravy....bleurgh

DH puts BUTTER on mash even if’s a roast with gravy. I considered divorce.

Mizaria! Its a polish cucumber salad. Best thing EVER with roast chicken.

Cauli cheese
Yorkshire puddings
Parsnips roasted in honey
Good gravy

Cheesy leeks are our favourite accompaniment to roast chicken! I use an adapted low carb recipe (the original recipe was for blue cheese).

Sweat leeks in a bit of butter for a few mins then add a small amount of water and a half tsp of veg stock powder. Simmer until liquid has just about evaporated then add a good slug of double cream and lots of grated cheese. Stir until all melted and gooey and perfect.

@shitinmyhandsandclap I entirely agree about cheese sauce and gravy but have to say the combination of your username and that sentence made me spit wine on the screen.

It is a very long time since a MNet post made me do that. Thank you

I agree about cheese being totally the wrong with roast chicken.

Roast chicken is a favourite here, it must be served with homemade stuffing, peppery mashed turnip, peas, creamy mash, roast spuds and real gravy, ti's the law here!

Cauliflower cheese on a roast is only acceptable when it's pork.

FangsForTheMemory
The rosaries? Are they just on Sunday roasts?

Skirlie. A Scottish delicacy.

Onions, oats and a bit of salt added, fried in pan, then finished off in the oven

Zukiecat agree!

I cheat and buy a couple of slices of white pudding from the butcher. Just put them in the oven for the last 20 mins the roasties are cooking, and they are done.

I also made a chard gratin once to use up some I had grown. Was delicious and would go well with roast chicken.

Sprinkle it with onion salt.
Pigs in blankets
Always homemade Yorkshire puddings
Wine and milk in gravy
Carrots
Peas
Cauliflower cheese