Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, lemon roast chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook lemon roast chicken using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Roast Chicken:
- Get 1 whole chicken
- Take 2 lemons
- Take 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- Prepare 2 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 tsp black pepper
- Get 4 cloves garlic
- Make ready 1 tsp smoked paprika
Instructions to make Lemon Roast Chicken:
- 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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