Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow has road-tripped through Spain with Mario Batali and Mark Bittman on "Spain On the Road Again," and the chefs' culinary know-how seems to be rubbing off.

The star of "Shakespeare in Love" has made a move towards her own cooking show with a roasted chicken how-to video she posted to her Web site Goop. During the nearly 8-minute video, the actress debones a chicken while talking about learning to cook while a 19-year-old student at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

"I was trying to be an actress as well so I kept driving down to LA to audition for movies, and my dad was there working. We sort of started getting into cooking together; we got sick of the frozen meatballs that were left in the freezer for us," Paltrow says. "It just became our thing. So we started watching a lot of cooking channels, and over the years its become a major passion."

Paltrow's Quick Roast Chicken and Potatoes after the jump.

Paltrow uses a whole chicken for her roasted dish with potatoes.

"My grandmother taught me how to wash chickens," she says, advising cooks to "take handfuls of kosher salt, wet the chicken with cold water, scrub inside and out, rinse and dry. So it's all nice and ready."

The actress sprinkles the bird with fresh lemon juice, salt, pepper and olive oil and stuffs its cavity with garlic, rosemary, sage and thyme. Around it, she places parboiled potatoes that she's shaken in an empty pot.

"It just kind of fuzzes the edge a little bit and then it's crispier," she says.

She cooks the bird covered at 450 degrees and then makes a fresh salad of lettuce, watercress ("lovely"), arugula ("it's just beauteous"), purple spring onion (cut on the bias), radishes, baby carrots (parboiled), fresh fava beans, and sweet English peas ("they're like candy -- they're incredible") with a champagne vinegar-mustard-maple syrup-olive oil vinaigrette.

"I feel inspired to cook all the time," Paltrow says. "Its sort of what I lie in bed and think about at night, which is maybe a problem, but It just makes me feel happy to think about food and think about new ways of combining things or what I like to try or what might be easy. I find it really relaxing, and I'm inspired by ingredients, you know. In Southern California, I mean, you just can't get any fresher than that. It's bananas."

[Via Dlisted]