Recipe of Ultimate Lemon Roast Chicken

Lemon Roast Chicken.

Hey everyone, it's Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we're going to prepare a special dish, lemon roast chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Lemon Roast Chicken is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It's simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It's appreciated by millions every day. Lemon Roast Chicken is something that I've loved my entire life. They're fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook lemon roast chicken using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon Roast Chicken:

1. {Prepare 1 of whole chicken.
2. {Make ready 2 of lemons.
3. {Prepare 1/2 cup of unsalted butter.
4. {Take 2 tsp of salt.
5. {Take 1 tsp of black pepper.
6. {Prepare 4 cloves of garlic.
7. {Prepare 1 tsp of smoked paprika.
8. {Get 1-2 of onions quartered.

Steps to make Lemon Roast Chicken:

1. Heat oven to 450. 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 and remaining zest and garlic..
6. Place on a rack in a small roasting pan, with onions around the chicken and roast for 15 minutes..
7. Reduce heat to 350 Continue to roast, and baste 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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