Lemon Roast Chicken. Roast chicken remains one of our favourite dishes at home. I recently discovered a way to make the chicken taste even better, by putting a lemon in with my potatoes when I was parboiling them. Arrange lemon and garlic cut sides down in skillet around chicken.
This Lemon Garlic Roast Chicken can also be made in a pressure cooker.
How to Make Lemon Garlic Roast Chicken - Step by Step Photos.
These lemon garlic roasted chicken legs are loaded with flavors, perfect for a super quick dinner which includes a really fast prep, no bowls to wash, and only ONE pan!
You can have Lemon Roast Chicken using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Lemon Roast Chicken
- You need 1 of whole chicken.
- You need 2 of lemons.
- You need 1/2 cup of unsalted butter.
- You need 2 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 1 tsp of black pepper.
- Prepare 4 cloves of garlic.
- Prepare 1 tsp of smoked paprika.
This Lemon Roast Chicken Dinner starts with fresh chicken that is highly seasoned and sprinkled with citrus flavor that's roasted in delicious juices, onions and potatoes making this the easiest weeknight. This lemon, garlic, rosemary chicken recipe also makes a mean chicken and rice soup if you have leftovers. The rosemary taste really good with the rice. I often serve the chicken with rice or roasted.
Lemon Roast Chicken step by step
- 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..
- Sprinkle the chicken cavity with 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon of the black pepper.
- 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..
- Take a full lemon and place it and the garlic in the cavity..
- 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.
- Place on a rack in a small roasting pan, and roast for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 180 degrees C..
- Continue to roast, basting with a brush every 15 minutes with the prepared lemon butter for about 1 hour..
- 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..
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