Easy Roast Chicken (Filipino-Style) - PinoyBites

Ingredients

• 1 whole chicken (about 3 lbs)
• juice of 1 lemon
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• ground black pepper
• 2 to 3 lemongrass stalks (bruised (use only the bottom 5” of the stalks))
• 1 whole garlic (cut in half horizontally)
• 3 Potatoes (quartered)
• 2 medium onions (quartered)
• 3 Asian eggplants* (cut into 2” chunks)
• 2 Tbsps olive oil (for brushing the chicken and coating the vegetables)
• Salt and black pepper for tying the chicken
• Kitchen twine