Roast Chicken with Croutons and Onions

Name: Roast Chicken with Croutons and Onions
Prep time: 1 h 55 min
Cook time: 1 h 55 min
Total time: 1 h 55 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 473 milliliters cubed French bread; 1 serving salt and ground black pepper to taste; 0 lemon, juiced; 1 large whole rosemary sprig; 1 large white onion, cut into 1-inch chunks; 2 kilograms whole chicken

Roast Chicken with Croutons and Onions is a dairy free main course. This recipe covers 49% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 1. One portion of this dish contains about 171g of protein, 132g of fat, and a total of 2104 calories. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 55 minutes. If you have chicken, salt and ground pepper, rosemary sprig, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the rosemary you could follow this main course with the Raspberry Brie Dessert Pizza with Rosemary and Candied Pecans as a dessert.

Instructions

Rinse chicken, pat thoroughly dry with paper towels, and allow to reach room temperature.

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Whole Chicken

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Paper Towels

Preheat oven to 390 degrees F (199 degrees C).

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Oven

Rub olive oil over outside of chicken and sprinkle skin and inside of cavity generously with salt. Rub black pepper and chopped rosemary onto chicken skin.

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Black Pepper

Olive Oil

Rosemary

Whole Chicken

Salt

Dry Seasoning Rub

Place 2 or 3 chunks of onion and French bread into cavity, along with whole rosemary sprig.

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French Bread

Rosemary

Onion

Place chicken into a cast iron skillet and arrange remaining onion and bread chunks around the bird; squeeze lemon juice over the chicken, onion, and bread cubes.

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Bread Cubes

Lemon Juice

Whole Chicken

Bread

Onion

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Frying Pan

Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes and turn chicken over so breast side is down.

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Whole Chicken

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Oven

Bake 30 more minutes; turn chicken back over so breast side is up.

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Whole Chicken

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Oven

Bake until chicken is browned and the juices run clear, an additional 30 minutes (90 total minutes roasting time). An instant-read meat thermometer, inserted into the thickest part of a thigh, not touching bone, should read at least 160 degrees F (70 degrees C).

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Meat

Bone