Lemon-Sage Roasted Chicken with Sage Pan Sauce

Name: Lemon-Sage Roasted Chicken with Sage Pan Sauce
Prep time: 1 h 22 min
Cook time: 1 h 22 min
Total time: 1 h 22 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons black pepper, divided; 296 milliliters fat-free, less-sodium chicken broth; 2 Tbsps all-purpose flour; 2 garlic cloves, minced; 2 smalls lemons; 1 teaspoon minced sage; 6 sage sprigs, divided; 1 teaspoons salt, divided; 1 kilograms whole chicken

Lemon-Sage Roasted Chicken with Sage Pan Sauce is a dairy free recipe with 4 servings. One portion of this dish contains about 32g of protein, 25g of fat, and a total of 387 calories. This recipe covers 16% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It works best as a main course, and is done in around 1 hour and 22 minutes. If you have salt, chicken, flour, 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

Preheat oven to 40

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Oven

. Grate rind from lemons to equal 1 tablespoon.

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Lemon

Beef

Cut 1 lemon in half; reserve other lemon for another use.

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Lemon

Combine lemon rind and garlic in a small bowl, stirring well.

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Lemon Peel

Garlic

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Bowl

Remove and discard giblets and neck from chicken. Trim excess fat. Starting at neck cavity, loosen skin from breast by inserting fingers, gently pushing between skin and meat. Rub garlic mixture under loosened skin.

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Meat

Garlic

Dry Seasoning Rub

Place 1 sage sprig under skin on each side of breast. Gently press skin to secure. Lift wing tips up and over back; tuck under chicken.

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Whole Chicken

Sage

Place lemon halves and remaining 4 sage sprigs in cavity. Tie legs together with kitchen string.

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Lemon

Sage

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Kitchen Twine

Place chicken on rack of a broiler pan coated with cooking spray.

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Cooking Spray

Whole Chicken

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Broiler Pan

Sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Insert a thermometer into meaty part of thigh, making sure not to touch bone.

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Pepper

Bone

Salt

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Kitchen Thermometer

Bake at 400 for 1 hour or until thermometer registers at least 165 or until desired degree of doneness.

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Kitchen Thermometer

Oven

Transfer to a platter; cover with foil.

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Aluminum Foil

Place a zip-top plastic bag inside a 2-cup glass measure.

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Ziploc Bags

Pour pan drippings into bag, reserving browned bits in bottom of pan.

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Frying Pan

Let drippings stand 10 minutes (fat will rise to top). Seal bag, and carefully snip off 1 bottom corner.

Drain pan drippings from bag into measuring cup, stopping before fat layer reaches opening. Reserve 1 tablespoon fat; discard remaining fat.

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Measuring Cup

Frying Pan

Add enough broth to drippings to equal 1 1/4 cups; add reserved 1 tablespoon fat and flour, stirring with a whisk until smooth.

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Broth

All Purpose Flour

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Whisk

Pour broth mixture into broiler pan. Cook over medium heat 5 minutes or until thick, scraping pan to loosen browned bits.

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Broth

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Broiler Pan

Frying Pan

Remove from heat; stir in remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt, remaining 1/4 teaspoon pepper, and minced sage.

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Pepper

Sage

Salt

Remove and discard lemon and sage from cavity of chicken. Carefully remove and discard skin from chicken and sage sprigs from breast, reserving garlic mixture.

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Whole Chicken

Garlic

Lemon

Sage

Spread garlic mixture over chicken.

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Whole Chicken

Garlic

Spread

Cut chicken into quarters.

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