My Favourite Roasted Chicken
My Favourite Roasting Chicken
- prep time: 15 minutes
- cook time: 45 minutes to 1 hour
- total time: 1 hour +
Servings: Dinner for 4 (depending on the size of the chicken
Ingredients:
- 1 Fresh Free Run Roasting Chicken
- Meridian Chicken Rub
- Olive Oil
- 1 red onion, sliced into rounds
- 1 Garlic Bulb
- 1 Bag of Little Potatoes or fingerling potatoes sliced in half
- 1 lemon
- 1 bunch of carrots, sliced
- Salt and Pepper
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350F
- Toss potatoes and carrots in olive oil, salt, pepper and garlic
- Cover the bottom of an oven-safe pan or roasting dish with olive oil
- Arrange onions in the middle and then arrange potatoes around the outside of the dish
- Place carrots in the pan as well
- Rinse chicken with water and pat dry with a paper towel (make sure it is really dry (this ensures a nice crispy skin)
- Mix chicken rub and olive oil
- Brush chicken rub mixture (generously) all over the roasting chicken
- Place chicken breast-side up into the roasting pan (on top of the onions)
- Slice the lemon and stuff the chicken with lemon and the garlic
- Any pieces of lemon that don't fit inside the cavity can be placed on top of the vegetables
- Optional - tie legs with butcher twine
- Roast for 40 minutes to an hour until a meat thermometer reaches 165F in the breast
- I like to increase the temperature of the oven to 400 degrees C for the last 20-30 minutes of cooking to get a nice crispy skin!
Kaylesha Penner