Robust Garlic Baked Chicken
Serves: 5
Jailyn Upton
1 January 1970
Based on User reviews:
44
Spice
54
Sweetness
55
Sourness
41
mins
Prep time (avg)
3.9
Difficulty
Ingredients:
Directions:
1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C)
2
Rinse the chicken and pat dry
3
Zest the lemon
4
Slice remaining lemon into quarters and place to the side
5
With hand mixer combine butter, lemon zest, minced garlic and 1/4 cup chopped rosemary
6
Take your hand and slide it between the skin and the meat on the breast, as well as loosening the 'pockets' between the leg and wing joints
7
Scoop some of the rosemary butter mixture onto your fingers and begin to stuff into the 'pockets' on the breast, leg, wings, etc
8
(Save approximately 1/4 of the rosemary butter mixture and rub on the inside of the chicken
9
) Season the cavity of the chicken with the salt, pepper and paprika
10
Add the quartered lemon, rosemary sprigs and sliced garlic to the chicken cavity
11
Bind the legs with culinary twine and tuck the wings into the leg joints to secure
12
Place the chicken breast up onto the roasting rack and into the oven
13
Roast for approximately 50 minutes, or until the juices run clear
14
Remove the 'stuffing', carve and serve