Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, lemon roast chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Roast chicken remains one of our favourite dishes at home. I recently discovered a way to make the chicken taste even better, by putting a lemon in with my potatoes when I was parboiling them. Lemon Roast Chicken is a classic oven roasted chicken recipe that results in a fresh, juicy, and tender chicken dinner option that is both easy and delicious!
Lemon Roast Chicken is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Lemon Roast Chicken is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lemon roast chicken using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Roast Chicken:
- Prepare 1 whole chicken
- Get 2 lemons
- Make ready 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- Make ready 2 tsp salt
- Make ready 1 tsp black pepper
- Prepare 4 cloves garlic
- Get 1 tsp smoked paprika
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Steps to make Lemon Roast Chicken:
- 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.
- Sprinkle the chicken cavity with 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon of the black pepper
- 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.
- Take a full lemon and place it and the garlic in the cavity.
- 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
- Place on a rack in a small roasting pan, and roast for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 180 degrees C.
- Continue to roast, basting with a brush every 15 minutes with the prepared lemon butter for about 1 hour.
- 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.
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