Roast chicken
A whole chicken roasted with lemon, garlic and thyme until the skin is crisp.
1 h 40 min
Ingredients
Cooking for
Recipe serves 4
- Whole chicken1.5 kg
- Butter (soft)30 g
- Lemons1
- Garlic4 cloves
- Thyme (optional)4 sprigs
- Salt2 tsp
- Black pepper (optional)to taste
Method
- 1
Heat the oven to 200 °C. Pat the whole chicken dry, rub it all over with the butter and season well with salt and black pepper.
- 2
Halve the lemon and put it inside the chicken with the garlic and thyme.
- 3
Roast for about 75 minutes, until the juices run clear when you pierce the thickest part of the thigh, or a thermometer there reads 75 °C. Rest for 10 minutes before carving.
- 1 h 15 min
- 10 min