Special equipment: kitchen twine

Preheat the oven to 475 levels F. Space the butter in a bowl and mash with a fork unless gentle. Add the matcha and 1 teaspoon salt and jog unless evenly combined.

Run your forefinger gently under the skin of the chicken and loosen it from the breasts and thighs. Utilizing a spoon, stuff scoops of matcha butter under the skin of the breasts and thighs and press it so it spreads out evenly. Engage any remaining matcha butter from the bowl (or that would not acquire under the skin), and rub it in all places in the exterior of the chicken. Sprinkle the chicken generously with extra salt and pepper.

Peel off the outer layers of each leek unless you accept no longer less than Eight inches of white and lightweight inexperienced substances to each. Roughly reduce satisfactory complex inexperienced substances to create a handful, then exquisite off and discard the relaxation. Chop the white and lightweight inexperienced leeks crosswise into 1-creep-thick rounds and rinse completely to earn any grime on them. Space the leek rounds and olive oil in a bowl, sprinkle with salt and pepper and toss gently to coat. Organize the rounds on a rimmed baking sheet flat-side down so that they assemble a “bed” for the chicken. Stuff the chopped greens at some level of the chicken alongside side the garlic. Tie the legs alongside side kitchen twine and assert the chicken on the bed of leeks. 

Bake the chicken for 20 minutes, then decrease the oven temperature to four hundred levels F and proceed baking unless the chicken is golden brown, the skin is crisp and an quick-be taught thermometer inserted into the thigh reads a hundred and sixty levels F, about 1 hour.

Engage away the baking sheet from the oven and let the chicken relaxation for 10 minutes. Switch the chicken to a slicing board and lower into serving objects. Pickle the leeks and pan juices into a bowl and toss collectively unless evenly lined. Switch the leeks to a serving platter and arrange the chicken on top of the greens. Spoon any pan juices over the chicken and sprinkle with the parsley.