Rosemary & garlic roast chicken

Recipes / Meat

For moist, flavourful chicken, pack it with garlic butter and rosemary before roasting.

Recipe «Rosemary & garlic roast chicken» presented in category Recipes / Meat, to prepare this dish you will need no more 1:00 minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author Gomer would need: 1.5kg whole chicken, 2 lemons, 60g butter, at room temperature, 3 garlic cloves, crushed, 4 large sprigs fresh rosemary , 1 tbsp olive oil, 1 garlic bulb, halved, 2 red onions, cut into quarters .

Ingredients:

  • 1.5kg whole chicken 
  • 2 lemons 
  • 60g butter, at room temperature 
  • 3 garlic cloves, crushed 
  • 4 large sprigs fresh rosemary 
  • 1 tbsp olive oil 
  • 1 garlic bulb, halved 
  • 2 red onions, cut into quarters 

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Run your fingers under the skin of chicken to create a pocket.
  2. Halve 1 lemon and reserve. Cut remaining lemon into 4 wedges. Combine the butter and garlic in a bowl and season with salt and pepper. Press the butter mixture into the chicken pocket. Place rosemary and 3 lemon wedges in the chicken cavity.
  3. Place chicken in a roasting pan. Squeeze over remaining lemon wedge. Drizzle with oil. Place garlic around chicken. Roast for 1 hour or until chicken is golden and cooked through.
  4. Preheat a chargrill on medium. Cook onion and reserved lemon halves for 3-4 minutes or until charred. Serve with the chicken.