Oven Roasted Chicken With Lemon, Garlic and Rosemary

Name: Oven Roasted Chicken With Lemon, Garlic and Rosemary
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 4-6 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1 -3 1/2 lb chicken; 4 lemons; 8 garlic cloves, peeled; 16 sprigs rosemary; 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes; salt and pepper

Submitted by susie cooks

"Great chicken dish. Also wonderful grilled! Work time does not include marinating time."

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photo by I'mPat

Ready In:: 55mins
Ingredients:: 6
Serves:: 4-6

ingredients

1 - 3 ¹⁄₂ lb chicken
4 lemons
8 garlic cloves, peeled
16 sprigs rosemary
¹⁄₂ teaspoon red pepper flakes
salt and pepper

directions

Cut chicken in half lenghtwise.
Place in large oven proof dish.
Squeeze juice from the lemons over the chicken.
Add the lemon to the dish along with garlic, rosemary, red pepper, salt and pepper.
Marinate for 2 hours, turning chicken a few times.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Roast chicken for 45 minutes.
Can broil at the end for darker, crisp skin.
Cut into serving pieces.

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If you don't like lemon, garlic or rosemary don't bother trying this recipe but if you do go COOK IT. I was inspired by mightyro-cooking4u's photo to give this a try. I quartered a 2k chicken (removing the back bone - makes good stock) and thought as usual it would only take 45 minutes to cook but it took an hour (think they may have been because of the liquid of the lemon juice int he bottom) but it was moist and full of flavour. Thank you susie cooks for a great recipe.

I'mPat
This chicken was very tasty and flavorful. The garlic, rosemary, and red pepper really came through. I butterflied the chicken. This will be made again.

mightyro_cooking4u
Loved this dish. I was cooking for 1 tonight so I roasted a skinless, bone-in chicken breast. The garlic, rosemary and lemon flavours complement each other and the red pepper flakes give it a bit of bite. I sprinkled some dried rosemary and garlic over the chicken before roasting it and used a few grindings of sel de mer and pepper. Made for Jammin' Java Jivers ZWT5

Dreamer in Ontario
Delicious! I did broil it for two minutes after the 45 minutes of baking. This is a truly flavorful roast chicken. You can really taste all of the major seasonings ...lemon, rosemary, garlic. And the red pepper flakes add an surprising and lovely surprise.

BarbryT
Susie, this was lovely ! I didn't have time to broil (grill) it at the end so it wasn't as golden or as crisp as some of my other chicken recipes, but it was so soft, it was falling apart as I tried to transfer it to a cutting board to carve. I stuffed the squeezed lemons, more rosemary and the garlic cloves into the cavity for extra flavour and so that the birdie wouldn't dry out while cooking. Sadly I didn't marinate it nearly long enough, but we had two seperate guests arriving for dinner at short notice so only did it for 30 minutes.. not nearly enough. I got a hint of the real flavour and that hint was a good one, so next time I will take the time to do it for longer as I'm sure that this can only get even better. Please see my rating system, a lovely 4 stars :) Thanks!

kiwidutch