This one-pan Mediterranean Spatchcock Chicken dish is the perfect recipe for your toddler’s dinner. It is a delicious, easy recipe with a mix of vegetables, herbs and spices, making it wholesome, nutritious and packed with flavour. With only a few simple ingredients, you can create a meal that is sure to impress both you and your toddler. Get your toddler in the kitchen and let them help to prepare and season the spatchcock before baking it all in one pan. Find this and more tasty toddler recipes on the Toddler Recipes Australia blog.

General Information

• Calories: 504 Servings: 4
• Cooking time: 40 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 cloves of garlic
• 2 sprigs of rosemary
• 4 tablespoons of olive oil
• 1 small lemon
• 1 whole chicken, spatchcocked

Preparation

1. Preheat the oven to 375F (190C).

2. Peel and mince the garlic.

3. Pick the leaves off of the rosemary and mince them.

4. In a bowl combine the garlic, rosemary and olive oil.

5. Cut the lemon in half and squeeze the juice into the mixture.

6. Mix everything together.

7. Place the spatchcocked chicken in a roasting pan.

8. Put the marinade over the chicken and rub it in all over.

9. Place the remaining lemon halves in the roasting pan beside the chicken.

10. Put the pan in the oven and bake for 40 minutes.

11. When the chicken has cooked through and reaches an internal temperature of 165F (74C), take it out of the oven and let it rest for 10 minutes before serving.

Did you hear the one about the chicken who crossed the road? He wanted to show the possum that it could be done!

Enjoy!