Oven - Fried chicken - Jamie oliver

This is an almighty fast food feast that saves on a few calories and tastes much better yeah we're talking chicken fried chicken I've developed a lovely little recipe where we're not frying we're baking but we're still getting gorgeous juicy chicken melt in your mouth with a crispy outside my oven fried chicken comes with three fab sides a rainbow slaw sticky wedges and charred corn and it all starts down here with a whole chicken first of all we're gonna take off the legs if you've never jointed a chicken before give it a go all you need is a big sharp knife and it's super simple and fun to break down season it with salt pepper and a good whack of Cajun spices then I'm gonna use cornmeal just a tablespoon and that's gonna give it a nice crispiness on the outside finally some olive oil and two cloves of garlic and give it a good old rub and even better massage this chicken up and let it marinate over nice for mega flavour but even just a few minutes sitting in the marinade will make all the difference now let's talk fries so I've got 4 sweet potatoes here all they need is a little bit of salt pepper, olive oil and I'm using that magic cornmeal again so just toss it up so we've got sweet potatoes and chicken nice and quick and a 20 minute blast the chicken's ready for the final bit of TLC southern fried chicken is all about that crispy coating so I don't want to deep fry it so I've got a recipe that I've worked up for you just *** up some stale bread with some garlic salt pepper some rosemary and just a little bit of olive oil look at that that's nice kind of fine but at the same time quite rustic as well and how do I get the chicken to stick to the bread crumbs well I came up with a nice little old fashioned trick, just flour and water give each piece of chicken a dunk a shake and it's straight into the crumbs our beautiful chicken goes back into the tray back into the oven it goes still at 190 degrees centigrade for another 40 minutes until golden and crispy now you can't have fried chicken without a little side of slaw so we're talking about stuff like white cabbage you could use a red cabbage if you want an onion white or red same price an apple or a pear right a carrot just shred it now for the dressing I'm swapping mayo for natural yoghurt instead yes we're gonna hit it up with seasoning salt and pepper a good teaspoon heaped of English mustard and then vinegar apple vinegar white wine vinegar one or two tablespoons in there and just a little drizzle of olive oil and we simply just mix it up and that is a really beautiful low fat delicious way to make a slaw ok to go with this we're gonna do some beautiful sweetcorn just whack it into a screaming hot griddle keep turning and in about 15 minutes it'll be lovely and charred delicious crispy quality chicken morish wedges and those brilliant sides you're gonna love it!