11/12/2023
It’s dark, it’s cold, the world is a mess. Possibly you, like me, need a cozy roast chicken dinner? Here’s my simple recipe for delicious lemon herb roasted chicken 🍋
Ingredients:
- 1 roasting chicken, giblets removed, patted dry
- 1 lemon cut into chunks
- 4-6 garlic cloves roughly chopped
- fresh herbs (sage, rosemary etc)
- dried herbs, cumin, smoked paprika, or whatever dried herbs you like and have
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Directions:
Preheat oven to 425 F.
- Wipe inside surface of a cast iron skillet or other heavy pan with olive oil and put it in the preheated oven for a few minutes
- Carefully remove the hot pan from oven and place the chicken breast side down in the pan, put it back in oven to sear for 1-2 minutes
- Again, very carefully (the cast iron is HOT!) flip the chicken over so the breast side is up in pan, squeeze most but not all of the lemon pieces over the breast (reserve a few pieces) then use a spoon to push the squeezed pieces inside the cavity.
- Do the same with the garlic putting some outside and pushing some pieces inside.
-Sprinkle kosher salt and dried herbs over top of bird. Stuff fresh herbs into the cavity leaving the herbs, hanging outside.
- Place skillet in oven at 425. Wait 5 minutes then turn the oven temperature down to 350 and cook for 1.5 hours or until juices run clear when you make a small knife cut deep into the breast.
- Take chicken out and immediately squeeze remaining few pieces of lemon over top and let it sit it 5 minutes before serving.
- Serve with rice that has some of the lemony juices mixed in, a nice salad /roasted vegetables, and maybe a hunk of sourdough bread too. I promise you will feel better about everything ❤️
