Simply the Best Roast Chicken
"This recipe comes from the wonderful 'Roast Chicken and other stories' and quite simply makes the perfect roast time after time. I tweak the original recipe by adding wine to make more sauce. If you don't like alcohol in food, just omit it!
This produces the most wonderful fragrant, buttery chicken which makes the perfect sunday lunch with roast potatos and roast veggies"
- Ready In:
- 1hr 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Serves:
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4-6
ingredients
- 1 whole roasting chicken (free range or organic for flavour!)
- 1 bunch fresh tarragon (NOT dried!)
- 1 whole lemon, cut in half
- 4 ounces butter, softened
- 1 cup dry white wine
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
directions
- Preheat oven to 450f/230c/gas mark 8.
- Smear the butter thickly over the entire chicken.
- Pop the chicken into a roasting tin, squeeze the lemon halves over chicken - retaining the squeezed skins.
- Stuff the cavity with the tarragon, crushed garlic clove and squeezed lemon halves.
- Season the chicken liberally with sea salt and crushed black pepper.
- Pour the cup of dry white wine into the pan and pop the chicken in the oven.
- Roast for 15 minutes on 450f and then turn the oven down to 375f/190c/gas mark 5 and roast for a further 30-45 minutes.
- The chicken is done when golden brown and the skin is crispy. By this point you should have lots of buttery brown sauce in the bottom of the pan.
- Turn off the oven and leave the door ajar for 15 minutes to relax the bird before carving.
- Once plated, pour the pan juices over the chicken.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
I find cooking very relaxing and love to experiment. My food hero is Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall; the idea of growing your own veg and rearing your own animals in a free-range, organic way is very appealing.
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<br>When not cooking I work from home for a tech company in Finland, love animals, old cars, travel and good restaurants!
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<br>How I rate recipes:
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<br>5 * Recipe worked perfectly, no substitutes needed and family raved about it.
<br>4 * Recipe worked well, a few substitutes were made to suit taste. Family loved it.
<br>3 * Recipe worked fairly well, a few changes to technique or substitutions were needed. Family liked it.
<br>2 * Recipe didn't work particularly well. It was edible but wouldn't cook again.
<br>1* Recipe didn't work at all. It wasn't edible and we wouldn't cook again.
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