Recipe: Appetizing Lemon Roast Chicken

Lemon Roast Chicken.

You can have Lemon Roast Chicken using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Lemon Roast Chicken

1. It's 1 of whole chicken.
2. It's 2 of lemons.
3. You need 1/2 cup of unsalted butter.
4. You need 2 tsp of salt.
5. Prepare 1 tsp of black pepper.
6. Prepare 4 cloves of garlic.
7. It's 1 tsp of smoked paprika.

Lemon Roast Chicken step by step

1. Heat oven to 240 degrees C . Zest and juice 1 lemon. Heat the lemon juice and the butter together in a small saucepan and set aside..
2. Sprinkle the chicken cavity with 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon of the black pepper.
3. 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..
4. Take a full lemon and place it and the garlic in the cavity..
5. 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.
6. Place on a rack in a small roasting pan, and roast for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 180 degrees C..
7. Continue to roast, basting with a brush every 15 minutes with the prepared lemon butter for about 1 hour..
8. 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..