How to Make Tasty Savory Roasted Chicken

Savory Roasted Chicken.

You can cook Savory Roasted Chicken using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Savory Roasted Chicken

1. It's 1 of fryer chicken.
2. Prepare 2 of lemons, quartered.
3. You need 1 of sprig fresh rosemary.
4. You need 1 of sprig fresh thyme.
5. It's 1 small of onion, quartered.
6. You need 2 clove of garlic.
7. It's 1 of sea salt.
8. You need 1 of cracked pepper.
9. It's 3 slice of bacon, halved.
10. It's 4 tbsp of butter.
11. It's 1 tbsp of olive oil, extra virgin.
12. It's 1 of paprika.
13. Prepare 1 of poultry seasoning.
14. It's 1 of garlic powder.
15. You need 1 of sage.

Savory Roasted Chicken step by step

1. Preheat oven to 400°F..
2. Add salt and pepper to cavity of chicken..
3. Stuff cavity with lemons, garlic, onion, thyme, and rosemary..
4. Smear 1 tbsp of butter over top of chicken and drizzle with olive oil..
5. Season top of chicken, including the legs and wings, with salt, pepper, poultry seasoning, sage, garlic powder, and paprika..
6. Place bacon strips across the top of the chicken breast, slightly overlapping, if needed..
7. Slice skin near the drumsticks. Place chunks of butter by both drumsticks and wings..
8. Place on a roasting rack in center of the oven, and roast for approximately one hour, or until juices run clear when poked with a fork. Bacon will baste chicken while it cooks..
9. Remove from oven, carve, and serve!.