Chicken and chips with peas or beans

Crisp-skinned roast chicken legs, a tray of oven chips and a choice of peas or baked beans. Simple, cheap and everybody's happy.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 200°C (180°C fan). Rub the chicken legs with the oil, paprika, thyme, salt and pepper and sit them skin side up in a roasting tin.
  2. Roast the chicken for 45 minutes until the skin is crisp and the juices run clear when the thickest part is pierced.
  3. When the chicken has 25 minutes left, spread the oven chips on a separate tray and bake on the shelf below, turning halfway.
  4. Five minutes before everything's ready, simmer the peas in a pan of boiling water and warm the beans in a small pan of their own.
  5. Rest the chicken for a couple of minutes, then serve with the chips and everyone's choice of peas or beans.