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Herb Butter Roast Chicken Recipe

Delicious roast chicken with butter, herbs and garlic. This chicken is roasted in oven with skins to create a crispy chicken with roast potatoes.
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Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Servings: 6 servings

Ingredients

  • Whole Chicken with skin - about 3 pounds
  • Onion - 1 chopped with skins on
  • Garlic - 1 whole bulb cut in half
  • Lemon - 1 cut in half
  • Potatoes - 4 to 5 cut into chunks
  • Onion - 2 cut into thick slices
  • For Herb Butter:
  • Butter - ½ cup
  • Garlic - 3 cloves grated
  • Paprika - 1 tsp
  • Oregano - 1 tsp
  • Rosemary - 1 tblspn
  • Fresh Parsley - 3 tblspn chopped finely
  • Salt to taste
  • Pepper to taste

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 200 degree C. Take a baking pan and place onion slices over it. Set aside.
  • Mix all the herb butter ingredients together and set aside.
  • Take chicken and use your fingers to separate the skins from it.
  • Now put half of the  herb butter in and massage it all over it so it spread evenly.
  • Now put onions, lemons, garlic inside the cavity of the chicken. Place the chicken over the bed of onions.
  • Now place the remaining butter over it and spread evenly.
  • Now tie the legs with a thread and place the potatoes around the chicken and pop it into the oven and bake for 1 hour and 30 mins.
  • Remove it from oven half way through the cooking time and take the juices from the pan and pour it over the chicken. do this two times.
  • Now remove it from oven and set aside for 20 mins.
  • Now slice and serve.

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