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The Best Roast Chicken Recipe

Succulent and juicy whole chicken roasted in the oven with delicious pan gravy
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
Calories:

Servings: 4 people

Equipment

  • Oven

Ingredients

  • 1 Whole chicken Approximately 1.3 kg whole chicken skin on
  • 2 Tablespoon Oil
  • 1 Lemon
  • 3 Rosemary sprigs

Herb Butter

  • 50 g Butter Salted
  • 3 cloves Garlic Chopped
  • 1 Table spoon Rosemary Chopped
  • 1 Table spoon Parsley Chopped
  • 1/2 teaspoon Salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon pepper Black
  • 2 Table spoon Oil

Vegetables

  • 1 Onion Skin on cut into quarters
  • 1 Head of Garlic cut into two with skin on
  • 1 Carrot Cut into big chunks
  • 1 Celery stalk Cut into big chunks

Gravy

  • 1 tsp Cornflour
  • 3 Table spoon Water
  • 1/4 cup Chicken Stock

Instructions

Butter preparation

  • If the butter is too hard, pass the butter in the microwave for 20 seconds to soften.In a small bowl mix all butter ingredients and mix well until incorporated.

Preparing the chicken

  • Take the chicken out of the fridge 30 minutes before cooking. Pat dry the skin
  • Using your finger tips, detach the top skin of the chicken from the flesh, this will detach easily, you just need to pass your fingers and hand inside the chicken
  • Take a hand full of butter and gently press it inside the skin and make sure the butter is dispersed well inside the skin.
  • Then with the rest of the butter spread it all over outside of the chicken
  • Drizzle oil on top of the buttered chicken and rub it using your hands
    This step is important so the skin does not burn

Prepare to Roast the chciken

  • In an oven tray, place all the cut vegetables on the bottom, place the chicken on the top. Stuff the bunch of herbs and cut lemon inside the cavity of the chicken
  • Gently place the tray in the middle shelf of the oven
  • Bake the chicken at 220c for 30-40 minutes until it has a golden brown colour
    Then reduce the temperature to 180C and bake it for 15- 20 minutes until cooked and using a meat thermometer make sure the temperature inside the chicken breast is 75C
    Cooking times are a guide only, ovens vary therefore please make sure to check the chicken often
    From time to time, baste the chicken with the juice dripped on the tray
  • Take it out of the oven place the chicken on a wire rack cover with foil and let it rest under foil for 10 minutes

Roast Chicken Gravy

  • Strain the juice of the chicken left in the tray directly into a pan
  • In a small bowl mix cornflour and water and mix well with spoon to make a slurry
  • Let it come to a boil, then add the cornflour slurry and whisk the gravy and leave it on the fire until thicken
  • Take it off the fire and enjoy with the roast chciken

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