Heavenly Home-Style Roasted Whole Chicken and Potatoes
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 1 whole chicken
- 4 tablespoons butter (or more)
- 1 tablespoon dried rosemary (plus a bit extra)
- salt and pepper, to taste
- lemon pepper, to taste
- paprika, to taste
- 4 teaspoons minced garlic
- 1 cup water
- 1 lb red potatoes, unpeeled and quartered
- 4 large carrots, chopped
- 1 large onion, chopped coursely (or quartered)
- olive oil, to taste
directions
- Pre-heat oven to 400.
- Unwrap chicken, remove giblets (if needed), wash, and pat semi-dry.
- Spread 1 tbs butter on the bottom of shallow roasting pan.
- Place whole chicken in roasting pan, breast side up.
- Sprinkle liberally with salt.
- Spread remaining butter all over chicken.
- Sprinkle with black pepper, lemon pepper, and paparika to taste. Sprinkle with rosemary.
- Add potatoes to pan, surrounding the chicken.
- Spinkle potatoes with salt, pepper, and small amount of rosemary.
- Drizzle potatoes with olive oil.
- Place pan in oven and bake chicken and potatoes for 20 minutes.
- Remove from oven.
- Toss potatoes to turn.
- Add 1 cup water to the pan.
- Add chopped carrots and onion to pan.
- Sprinkle minced garlic over veggies and chicken.
- Drizzle carrots and onion with olive oil.
- Place pan back in oven.
- Bake for an additional 45 mins until chicken is brown and crispy, and potatoes are nicely roasted.
- Remove from oven, allowing chicken to cool.
- Carve chicken and serve with veggies (drizzle with gravy from the pan, if you like).
- NOTE: If whole chicken is over 3.5 pounds, add 8-10 mins per pound to cooking time.
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Reviews
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Wow- This was excellent! I added mushrooms with the potatoes and probably cooked a bit longer before stirring the potatoes. I wasn't sure it the minced garlic was the dried kind or fresh. I decided since the rosemary called for was dried, it was probably the dried kind. I didn't have any on hand so I used Tastefully Simple Garlic Garlic. I didn't measure anything, just did what felt right on the amounts and it was simply delicious. This is a keeper!
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I wanted a chicken/potatoes/carrots dinner that wasn't a mushy crockpot stew. This was everything promised. I stuffed the chicken with 1/2 an apple and 1/4 cucumber, and followed the recipe exactly otherwise. Crispy skin/exterior and very moist meat. Tasty veggies. I let everything sit about 15 minutes after taking it out of the oven. Thumbs up all around the table. Thanks!
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