Easy Oven Roasted Potatoes and Chicken with Culantro Sauce - Dinner Idea | Trinidad | Caribbean

culantro

🥗Healthier: parsley

💰Cheaper: cilantro

Parsley provides a similar fresh flavor, while cilantro is more common and less expensive.

olive oil

🥗Healthier: avocado oil

💰Cheaper: vegetable oil

Vegetable oil is more budget-friendly but has a higher smoke point.

Wash and clean the chicken drumsticks.

Season the chicken with 1 to 1.5 tablespoons of flavored by energy baked and grilled chicken spice blend and roughly 3/4 teaspoon of salt.

Add 1 tablespoon of avocado oil to the chicken and mix well, using hands or gloves.

Set the seasoned chicken aside to marinate for a few hours.

Wash the regular potatoes and scrub the skin clean, leaving the skin on.

Cut the potatoes into cubes.

Season the potatoes with 1 tablespoon of flavored by generj roasted potato spice blend and about 1/2 teaspoon of salt.

Add 2 tablespoons of avocado oil to the potatoes and mix everything properly.

Grease a baking tray and add both the potatoes and chicken to it.

Bake in the oven at 420°F for roughly 45 minutes, flipping the chicken drumsticks halfway through if desired.

While the chicken and potatoes are baking, prepare the sauce by adding culantro, garlic, and hot pepper to a food processor and processing until finely chopped.

In a bowl, mix the processed ingredients with salt, chili flakes, avocado oil, and a tiny bit of apple cider vinegar.

Once the chicken and potatoes are done, plate the potatoes and chicken, drizzle the sauce over them, and serve.

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