Salt-Roasted Chicken

Serves: 3

Jewel Boehm

1 January 1970

Based on User reviews:

54

Spice

49

Sweetness

44

Sourness

39

mins

Prep time (avg)

5.2

Difficulty

Ingredients:

2.25 tsps

Fine Sea Salt

1 tsp

Black Pepper

Directions:

1

Rinse chicken and thoroughly pat dry, then sprinkle inside and out with salt and pepper and set in a shallow dish

2

Cover loosely with plastic wrap and chill at least 12 and up to 48 hours

3

Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 500°F

4

Pat chicken dry, then rub skin with butter and put lemon slices in cavity

5

Put chicken in a small roasting pan in oven and reduce oven temperature to 425°F

6

Roast chicken, basting occasionally with pan juices, until thermometer inserted 2 inches into fleshy part of thigh (do not touch bone) registers 170°F, about 50 minutes

7

Let stand 15 minutes before carving

8

Rinse chicken and thoroughly pat dry, then sprinkle inside and out with salt and pepper and set in a shallow dish

9

Cover loosely with plastic wrap and chill at least 12 and up to 48 hours

10

Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 500°F

11

Pat chicken dry, then rub skin with butter and put lemon slices in cavity

12

Put chicken in a small roasting pan in oven and reduce oven temperature to 425°F

13

Roast chicken, basting occasionally with pan juices, until thermometer inserted 2 inches into fleshy part of thigh (do not touch bone) registers 170°F, about 50 minutes

14

Let stand 15 minutes before carving