Leslie's Roast Chicken
"Yummy!"
photo by teresas
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 1 whole chicken
- 2 tablespoons butter
- coarse salt
- pepper
- 2 onions, sliced thick
- 1 lemon
- 2 tablespoons minced garlic (refrigerated)
directions
- Preheat oven to 425.
- Clean chicken guts out. Rinse chicken thoroughly, inside and out. Dry chicken with paper towels, then coat inside of cavity with coarse salt and some pepper.
- Slice onions and line the bottom of pan. Palm the lemon and then stab it with a fork all over. Stick the lemon in the chicken cavity, as well as all the garlic. Put chicken in pan on top of onions.
- Put pats of butter on top of chicken. Salt and pepper the skin.
- Place in oven and cook 1.5-2 hours. (Place foil loosely over chicken last 30 to 60 minutes.).
- When you get the chicken out let it set at least 15 minutes so the juices settle and don't run out when it's cut.
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Reviews
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Wow! This is really good! It cooks up so juicy and tender and the aroma while roasting makes the house smell like Sunday dinner is cooking! I wouldn't change a thing, thanks for sharing your recipe we'll be enjoying again :) Made for PAC Fall 09 -
Delicious! This is so easy to prepare and the meat comes out so moist and tender. The skin was nice and crispy...just the way we like it. This is a keeper...Thanks for posting. Made for Fall PAC 2011. :)
