Lemon Roast Chicken
Lemon Roast Chicken

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, lemon roast chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to 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:
  1. Make ready 1 whole chicken
  2. Take 2 lemons
  3. Get 1/2 cup unsalted butter
  4. Take 2 tsp salt
  5. Get 1 tsp black pepper
  6. Prepare 4 cloves garlic
  7. Take 1 tsp smoked paprika
Instructions to make Lemon Roast Chicken:
  1. 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.
  2. Sprinkle the chicken cavity with 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon of the black pepper
  3. 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.
  4. Take a full lemon and place it and the garlic in the cavity.
  5. 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
  6. Place on a rack in a small roasting pan, and roast for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 180 degrees C.
  7. Continue to roast, basting with a brush every 15 minutes with the prepared lemon butter for about 1 hour.
  8. 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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