How to Prepare Tasty Roast Chicken

Roast Chicken.

You can have Roast Chicken using 7 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Roast Chicken

1. It's 1 of whole chicken.
2. It's 3 tablespoons of butter.
3. It's 1/2 of lemon.
4. It's 1 head of garlic.
5. You need 4 sprigs of rosemary.
6. Prepare 4 sprigs of thyme.
7. Prepare 2 tablespoons of salt.

Roast Chicken step by step

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2. Remove giblets from chicken and pat dry as much as possible.
3. Melt butter in small microwaveable bowl.
4. Finely chop one sprig of rosemary and one sprig of thyme, add to bowl with melted butter.
5. Cut off top of head of garlic so each clove is exposed. Mince one clove and add it to the bowl with melted butter..
6. Add a squeeze of the halved lemon to bowl with melted butter.
7. Mix together bowl with butter, then spread all over chicken.
8. Stuff cavity of chicken with rest of thyme and rosemary, head of garlic, and halved lemon.
9. Sprinkle entire chicken (including inside) generously with salt.
10. Tie chicken legs together with kitchen twine.
11. Roast chicken for 1 hour, then remove from oven and baste with juices. Roast 15 more minutes, baste again..
12. Cover roasted chicken loosely with foil and let sit for 15+ minutes.
13. Carve and enjoy! Save the carcass in the freezer for stock later on..