Peasant food. Pollo e Patate. A bed of potatoes and onions tossed in olive oil and salt and pepper with chicken on top all roasted until the chicken juices cook the potatoes.
I don’t make this for the chicken. I make it for the potatoes with all that chicken juice tastiness. Though the crispy chicken skin is pretty good too.
I grew up on a variant of this where it’s served on a bed of spaghetti and peas are added to the potatoes in the last few minutes. A double starch feast.
Cost: $1.87 per person.
Molly baz has a great gochijang version of this.
I’ve made it. It’s easy, one pan, and comes out of the oven like a dream. The potatoes have that great chicken fat flavor, but also the funky, savory heat of the gochijang.