Roast Chicken with peppers, Lemon, and Thyme

Ingredients for Roast Chicken with peppers, Lemon, and Thyme

• 4 large peppers (any colour)

• 1 large shallot, thinly sliced

• 1 Fresno chilli, thinly sliced crosswise

• 5 sprigs thyme, divided

• Kosher salt, freshly ground pepper

• 60ml plus 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil

• 1 (3 1/2–4-lb.) chicken, patted dry

• 1 lemon, halved

Place a rack in middle of oven; preheat to 218°C. Heat a large ovenproof skillet, preferably cast iron, over medium-high. Cook peppers in skillet, turning every minute or two, until blistered in several spots, about 5 minutes. (You aren’t trying to cook them, just get some colour on them.) Transfer peppers to a cutting board and let cool slightly; reserve skillet. Stand a pepper upright and slice off sides, working your way around stem in 3 or 4 cuts. Pull out ribs and seeds; discard along with stems. Repeat with remaining peppers.

Return peppers to skillet and add shallot, chilli, and 3 thyme sprigs. Season generously with salt and black pepper and drizzle 60ml oil over. Season chicken all over with salt and black pepper and set on top of peppers. Place a lemon half and remaining 2 thyme sprigs in chicken cavity and rub skin all over with remaining 1 tablespoon oil. Roast in oven until skin is golden brown and crisp all over and an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of breast registers 71°C, 60–80 minutes. Remove from oven (be careful; handle is hot!) and let rest 15 minutes before transferring chicken to a cutting board and carving.

Just before serving, squeeze remaining lemon half over chicken and peppers.

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