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Perfectly Oven-Roasted Whole Chicken Recipe

La Faguette
If the look and smell of this fine piece of meat doesn't make you moody, you're dead on the inside.
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Time 2 hours
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Servings 4 people

Ingredients
  

  • 1 - 5 to 6 pound whole chicken
  • 6 Tbsp unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 Tbsp olive oil
  • ½ heaping tsp dried rosemary
  • ¼ heaping tsp dried thyme
  • kosher salt
  • black pepper

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 425°F.
  • Remove any insides from cavity of chicken. Pat-dry entire chicken inside and out! Get under those wings and legs!
  • Unstick the skin from the meat with your fingers on the top and bottom of bird, so you can season between them!
    Unstick Skin
  • Whisk together butter, oil, rosemary, and thyme. No salt & no pepper yet!
  • Lather the butter mixture all over chicken. First, between the skin and meat; then, all over the outside.
  • Season the outside, AND INSIDE THE CAVITY, of the chicken generously and evenly with salt and pepper. Stuff the hole with NANA'S FAMOUS STUFFING.
  • Tie chicken legs together with cooking twine.
  • Place in roasting pan, cover tightly with tinfoil, and set in middle of oven. Bake for an hour.
  • Uncover chicken, baste, and put it back in the oven for half an hour or until an internal temp of 165°F is reached/juices run clear when cut. If bird starts to brown too much before it's done, just cover again with foil.
  • Remove chicken from oven and allow to rest, tented in foil. Let sit 10-15 minutes before carving!

Notes

JUST THE TIPS!
1.) Set up your 'mis en place.' This means do what the recipe tells you to do to the individual ingredients, measure them out, and then place them in separate little bowls/dishes/what-have-you. When it's time to build the recipe, you have everything measured and ready to go. It makes the entire process so much easier and more enjoyable! 
2.) This recipe can be made year-round. In lieu of a heavier stuffing, fill the chicken's cavity with 3 lemon wedges, 3 cloves of garlic, and a couple sprigs of rosemary and thyme! Super, mega flavorful!!!
Keyword chicken, easy stuffed chicken, oven roasted chicken, roasted chicken, whole chicken
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