Roast Chicken with Lemon, Garlic, and Rosemary

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Description

Roast chicken could not be easier – or tastier – than with this recipe. Lemon, rosemary, and garlic help to flavor this gloriously roasted chicken with crispy skin.

Ingredients

  • 1 whole chicken
  • 1 tablespoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 2 sprigs rosemary
  • 3 cloves garlic, peeled
  • 1 lemon, halved

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
  2. Pat chicken dry and sprinkle salt on all sides and inside the cavity. Sprinkle with black pepper. Pluck the leaves from 1 spring of rosemary and sprinkle on the chicken. Place the other whole sprig inside the cavity along with garlic and lemon.
  3. Place the chicken on a roasting rack set inside a roasting pan.
  4. Bake in the preheated oven until no longer pink at the bone and the juices run clear
  5. about 1 hour. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the thigh
  6. near the bone
  7. should read 165 degrees F (74 degrees C).

Prep Time: 15 mins

Cook Time: 1 hr

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins

Servings: 4

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