Roast Chicken.
You can Have Roast Chicken using 7 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Roast Chicken
- What You needis 1 of whole chicken.
- What You needis 3 tablespoons of butter.
- What You needis 1/2 of lemon.
- Lets Go Prepare 1 head of garlic.
- It's 4 sprigs of rosemary.
- What You needis 4 sprigs of thyme.
- It's 2 tablespoons of salt.
Roast Chicken instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- Remove giblets from chicken and pat dry as much as possible.
- Melt butter in small microwaveable bowl.
- Finely chop one sprig of rosemary and one sprig of thyme, add to bowl with melted butter.
- Cut off top of head of garlic so each clove is exposed. Mince one clove and add it to the bowl with melted butter..
- Add a squeeze of the halved lemon to bowl with melted butter.
- Mix together bowl with butter, then spread all over chicken.
- Stuff cavity of chicken with rest of thyme and rosemary, head of garlic, and halved lemon.
- Sprinkle entire chicken (including inside) generously with salt.
- Tie chicken legs together with kitchen twine.
- Roast chicken for 1 hour, then remove from oven and baste with juices. Roast 15 more minutes, baste again..
- Cover roasted chicken loosely with foil and let sit for 15+ minutes.
- Carve and enjoy! Save the carcass in the freezer for stock later on..