Lemon Garlic Roasted Chicken
I have never made a turkey. The thought of making a turkey is a bit intimidating to me. Not because of the size of the bird but making sure that bird has flavor. There have only been 2, maybe 3, times in my life that I have had a turkey that wasn’t dry and the flavor permeated the entire bird. However, there will come a day where my family will come to my home for a holiday dinner and I will be forced to make a turkey. So I figured I need to start practicing now. Therefore, when the time does come it is the best darn turkey they ever had. That is where this chicken comes in. I’m starting off small and working my way up. Cooking with Cornish Hens or Chickens is great practice. You can explore different flavor combinations and techniques to make the bird moist and tasty.
Now about this bird….
The one thing I love about making meat is exploring different flavor combinations. There are all sorts of things you can do with meat. You can brine it, braise it, marinade it, fry it, steam it, broil it, and the list goes on. But what makes meat good is the flavor. You can never go wrong with lemon garlic as a flavor combination. Its light and extremely flavorful. And, if you add some fresh herbs that will take the flavor of your meat up a notch. You know what else you could do? You can roast the garlic itself and make a delicious sauce for the chicken or even mash the roasted garlic in your mashed potatoes! Like seriously! Here is a great article on how to roast garlic!
The good thing about roasting is you can put an entire meal in with the meat and your done. I put in about a pound of red potatoes and made some sauteed spinach to complete my meal, but you can do whatever you want. You can add carrots, turnips, zucchini, butternut squash, baby corn on the cob, and sweet potatoes and you have yourself a meal! The flavor of this Lemon Garlic Roasted Chicken will saturate the vegetables and will taste heavenly.
If you are in charge of making the bird this year and your not quite sure of what you are doing, you have 2 weekends left before the big “C” Day to practice. I hope this recipe gives you some direction.
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Ingredients
- Ingredients
- • 5 pounds Whole Roaster Chicken
- • 1 whole Onion
- • 2 whole Lemons
- • 1 bunch Thyme
- • 6 Tablespoons Butter, Room Temperature, Divided
- • 5 cups Chicken Stock
- • 5 cloves Garlic, Minced
- • 1 Tablespoon Garlic Powder
- • 2 Tablespoons Lemon Garlic Seasoning
- • 1 Tablespoon Dried Parsley
- • 1 pound Red Potatoes, Halved
- • 1 Tablespoon Honey
- • Salt And Pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F: Remove the chicken giblets and rinse the chicken, inside and out. Place it on top of a cutting board.
- With a paper towel, pat the chicken dry. Cut the onion into big chunks and slice one the lemons. Stuff the inside of the chicken with the onions, lemon slices, and the bunch of thyme. With a kitchen string, tie the legs together.
- Liberally sprinkle the chicken with salt and pepper. Take 4 tablespoons of butter and rub it all over the chicken. Place the chicken in a roasting pan. Pour in the chicken stock (if you have a flavor injector, you can inject some of the stock into the chicken) into the pan. Sprinkle the minced garlic over the chicken. Sprinkle the chicken with the garlic powder, lemon garlic seasoning, and parsley.
- Take your cut potatoes and place them around the chicken in the roasting pan making sure that they do not cover the chicken. Roast the chicken for about 1 hour and 45 minutes. Then melt the other 2 tablespoons of butter, whisk in the honey and pour on top of the chicken and place back in the oven reducing the heat to 250 F for 30 minutes.
- Remove chicken from oven when finished, take the other lemon and cut it in half, squeeze the lemon juice over the chicken, and allow it to sit for 20 minutes so the flavor doesn’t escape the bird and serve with the roasted vegetables.
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