Lemon Roast Chicken.
Hey everyone, I hope you're having an incredible day today. Today, we're going to make a special dish, lemon roast chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook lemon roast chicken using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Roast Chicken:
- {Make ready 1 of whole chicken.
- {Make ready 2 of lemons.
- {Make ready 1/2 cup of unsalted butter.
- {Get 2 tsp of salt.
- {Take 1 tsp of black pepper.
- {Get 4 cloves of garlic.
- {Make ready 1 tsp of smoked paprika.
- {Get 1-2 of onions quartered.
Instructions to make Lemon Roast Chicken:
- Heat oven to 450. 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 and remaining zest and garlic..
- Place on a rack in a small roasting pan, with onions around the chicken and roast for 15 minutes..
- Reduce heat to 350 Continue to roast, and baste 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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