Lemon Roast Chicken
Lemon Roast Chicken

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, lemon roast chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Easy Chicken Recipe Made With Two Of The Most Popular Flavors Perfectly Blended Together. Place the chicken in a large roasting pan. Liberally salt and pepper the inside of the chicken. Place chicken breast side up on a rack in a roasting pan.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lemon roast chicken using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon Roast Chicken:
  1. Make ready 1 whole chicken
  2. Get 2 lemons
  3. Get 1/2 cup unsalted butter
  4. Take 2 tsp salt
  5. Make ready 1 tsp black pepper
  6. Get 4 cloves garlic
  7. Prepare 1 tsp smoked paprika

Transfer chicken breast side up to a large oven-safe skillet. Drizzle chicken all over with melted butter (mmmmmmm) and. Place the chicken, skin side down, on top of the onion and brush with about half the oil and. Wash the chicken thoroughly in cold water, both inside and out.

Steps to make Lemon Roast Chicken:
  1. Heat oven to 240 degrees C . - Zest and juice 1 lemon. Heat the lemon juice and the butter together in a small saucepan and set aside.
  2. Sprinkle the chicken cavity with 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon of the black pepper
  3. Gently slide two fingers under the skin of the breast and rub half of the zest , 1/4 teaspoon of the blackpepper and the 1 tsp paprika onto the whole chicken.
  4. Take a full lemon and place it and the garlic in the cavity.
  5. Tie the legs together with butcher's twine and season the outside of the bird with the remaining 1 teaspoon salt and 1/4 tsp of the black pepper
  6. Place on a rack in a small roasting pan, and roast for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 180 degrees C.
  7. Continue to roast, basting with a brush every 15 minutes with the prepared lemon butter for about 1 hour.
  8. Let the chicken rest at least 15 minutes to allow the juice to settle before serving. - You can serve it with steamed vegetables or baked potatoes . - Enjoy your meal.

Place the chicken, skin side down, on top of the onion and brush with about half the oil and. Wash the chicken thoroughly in cold water, both inside and out. Remove all the bits of fat hanging loose. Loosely stuff chicken with squeezed lemon halves, onion, thyme sprigs and garlic. Cut the lemons in half and squeeze the juice of one lemon all over the chicken.

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