5 recipes to enjoy roasting a Sutton Hoo Chicken throughout the summer months

13 Jul

You can’t beat an English summer when the weather is behaving! With the sun shining and vegetable patches flourishing; there’s no excuse not to get cooking with the abundance of seasonal food on offer. Whether it’s from your own veg patch, or bought from local farm shops, the colourful ingredients available during English summertime are plentiful. Let the earthy, delicious smell of tomatoes, for example, kick start your senses!

Cooking during the pandemic has become a very important ritual, with many of our followers feeling inspired to try new recipes and be more adventurous with food during lockdown. We hope this continues and people carry on enjoying cooking at home.

People can be nervous to cook a whole chicken, often choosing chicken breasts as their go to. But recipes using the whole bird are truly scrumptious and easy to prepare.

We have put together some of our mouth-watering whole bird dishes that are perfect for the summer months.

Although you can’t beat a roast chicken smothered in well seasoned butter and chucked in the oven, by the end of the winter we are looking for alternative ideas. These recipes really raise the bar and will turn your traditional roast up a notch, don’t keep them just for Sunday’s!

A whole chicken cooked one night can also provide plenty of left-over meals. We’ve even given you some suggestions below each recipe! Loving your leftovers is an easy way to reduce food waste and provide time-saving meals for later in the week. Enjoy!