Whole chicken recipes for your comfort food cravings

Chicken is one of the ultimate comfort foods. From whole roast chook to chicken soups using chicken bones to make a flavourful broth, chicken recipes are always on high rotation in our households.

Here, we’ve collected our best recipes using the whole chicken, from a traditional roast chicken with bread sauce to finger-licking Nashville fried chicken.

Bar Rochford’s spatchcock roasted in hay with tarragon butter

Bar Rochford’s spatchcock roasted in hay with tarragon butter

Spiced chicken en papillote with preserved lemon

Spiced chicken en papillote with preserved lemon

Recipes from Australia’s best chefs

Lemonpi’s peanut and miso shortbread bars

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49 of our best Thai recipes to master

50 best dinner ideas to dial up the flavour (but not the labour)

Our favourite Neil Perry recipes

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65 of our best vegetarian recipes

Roast chicken with tarragon, garlic and lemon

Roast chicken with tarragon, garlic and lemon

Roast chicken with Russian salad

Roast chicken with Russian salad

Soy and ginger roast chicken

Soy and ginger roast chicken

Roast chicken with bread sauce

Roast chicken with bread sauce

Roast tarragon chicken

Roast tarragon chicken

Epocha’s roast chicken, braised Savoy cabbage, prune and butter sauce

Epocha’s roast chicken, braised Savoy cabbage, prune and butter sauce

Tomato and thyme roast chicken

Tomato and thyme roast chicken

Janni Kyritsis’s chicken baked in clay with pancetta, mushrooms and barley pilaf

Janni Kyritsis’s chicken baked in clay with pancetta, mushrooms and barley pilaf

Recipes from Australia’s best chefs

15 shortbread recipes for all your biscuit needs

49 of our best Thai recipes to master

50 best dinner ideas to dial up the flavour (but not the labour)

Our favourite Neil Perry recipes

40 sweet tart recipes to brighten your day

65 of our best vegetarian recipes

Yoghurt roast chicken

Yoghurt roast chicken

Grilled whole chicken with piri piri

Grilled whole chicken with piri piri

Sean Brock’s Nashville hot chicken

Sean Brock’s Nashville hot chicken

Chicken noodle soup

Chicken noodle soup

Sunda’s masterstock-poached chicken with ginger and spring onion relish

Sunda’s masterstock-poached chicken with ginger and spring onion relish

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