Lemon and Garlic Roast Chicken

Name: Lemon and Garlic Roast Chicken
Prep time: 1 h 55 min
Cook time: 1 h 55 min
Total time: 1 h 55 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 227 grams sliced bacon; 4 servings Freshly ground black pepper; 2 Tbsps butter, melted; 118 milliliters chicken stock; 1 large bunch fresh thyme; 3 heads garlic, cut in 1/2 crosswise; 4 servings Kosher salt; 4 lemons; 2 kgs roasting chicken; 237 milliliters white wine

Lemon and Garlic Roast Chicken is a gluten free, primal, and דל פחמימות, main course. This recipe makes 4 servings with 1292 calories, 81g of protein, and 93g of fat each. This recipe covers 44% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. A mixture of garlic, pepper, kosher salt, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so flavorful. To use up the kosher salt you could follow this main course with the Low Fat Crumbs Cake (Kosher-Dairy) as a dessert.

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Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.

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Oven

Remove the chicken giblets. Rinse the chicken inside and out.

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Whole Chicken

Remove any excess fat and leftover pinfeathers and pat the outside dry.

Place the chicken in a large roasting pan. Liberally salt and pepper the inside of the chicken. Stuff the cavity with the thyme, reserving enough thyme to garnish the chicken dish, 1 lemon, halved, and 2 halves of the garlic.

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Salt And Pepper

Whole Chicken

Garlic

Lemon

Thyme

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Roasting Pan

Brush the outside of the chicken with the butter and sprinkle again with salt and pepper. Tie the legs together with kitchen string and tuck the wing tips under the body of the chicken.

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Salt And Pepper

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Butter

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Kitchen Twine

Cut 2 of the lemons in quarters and scatter the quarters and remaining garlic around the chicken.

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Whole Chicken

Garlic

Lemon

Lay the bacon slices over the chicken to cover.

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Bacon

Whole Chicken

Roast the chicken for 1 hour.

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Whole Chicken

Remove the bacon slices from the top of the chicken and set aside. Continue roasting the chicken for an additional 1/2 hour, or until the juices run clear when you cut between a leg and thigh.

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Bacon

Whole Chicken

Remove to a platter and cover with aluminum foil while you prepare the gravy.

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Gravy