Honey-Roasted Chicken with Lemon and Tarragon

Name: Honey-Roasted Chicken with Lemon and Tarragon
Prep time: 5 h
Cook time: 5 h
Total time: 5 h
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons black pepper; 2 kilograms chicken, rinsed and patted dry; 2 Tbsps finely chopped fresh tarragon; 1 head garlic, left unpeeled and halved horizontally; 59 milliliters mild honey; 2 lemons; 1 Tbsp olive oil; 1 teaspoons salt; 2 Tbsps unsalted butter, softened

Honey-Roasted Chicken with Lemon and Tarragon might be just the main course you are searching for. This gluten free and primal recipe serves 6. One portion of this dish contains around 51g of protein, 46g of fat, and a total of 691 calories. If you have olive oil, chicken, salt, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the lemons you could follow this main course with the Blackberry Lemon Chess Pie w/ Honey Jumbleberry Sauce. How I won the SF Food Wars – Pie or Die Competition as a dessert.

Instructions

Put oven rack in middle position and preheat to 425°F.

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Oven

Finely grate enough zest from 1 lemon to measure 1 tablespoon, then squeeze enough juice from same lemon to measure 2 tablespoons.

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Juice

Lemon

Stir together butter, tarragon, zest, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and pepper.

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Tarragon

Butter

Pepper

Salt

Put chicken, breast side up, in a small roasting pan. Starting from neck cavity, work your fingers gently between skin and flesh of breast to loosen skin all the way to thighs without tearing. Put one fourth of tarragon butter under skin of each breast, then rub skin from outside to spread evenly.

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Tarragon

Whole Chicken

Butter

Spread

Dry Seasoning Rub

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Roasting Pan

Starting from large cavity, loosen skin on both sides of cavity with a paring knife (to provide access to thighs), then work your fingers gently between skin and flesh of thighs and drumsticks. Divide remaining tarragon butter among thighs and drumsticks, rubbing skin from outside to spread evenly. Season cavity and skin with salt and pepper, then halve remaining lemon and put inside cavity along with garlic. Tie drumsticks together with kitchen string.

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Salt And Pepper

Chicken Drumsticks

Tarragon

Butter

Garlic

Spread

Lemon

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Kitchen Twine

Knife

Whisk together honey, lemon juice, oil, and remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt. Roast chicken 30 minutes, then brush pan juices and half of honey mixture over chicken and roast 10 minutes more.

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Roasted Chicken

Lemon Juice

Whole Chicken

Honey

Salt

Cooking Oil

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Whisk

Frying Pan

Brush chicken again with pan juices and remaining honey mixture and continue to roast until thermometer inserted in fleshy part of a thigh (do not touch bone) registers 170°F, about 20 minutes more.

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Whole Chicken

Honey

Bone

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Kitchen Thermometer