Roast Chicken with Lemon and Tarragon Butter

Name: Roast Chicken with Lemon and Tarragon Butter
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons black pepper; 1 kilograms quartered chicken; 1 teaspoons dried tarragon, crumbled; 1 teaspoon finely grated fresh lemon zest; 1 teaspoons salt; 59 milliliters 1/2 stick unsalted butter, softened

Roast Chicken with Lemon and Tarragon Butter might be just the main course you are searching for. One portion of this dish contains around 63g of protein, 63g of fat, and Head to the store and pick up butter, chicken, lemon zest, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the unsalted butter you could follow this main course with the Almond Milk Chocolate Pudding as a dessert. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free, primal, and fodmap friendly diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 500°F.

Equipment you will use

Oven

Stir together butter, zest, tarragon, salt, and pepper.

Ingredients you will need

Tarragon

Butter

Pepper

Salt

Pat chicken dry and arrange, skin sides up, in a shallow roasting pan (1 inch deep). Loosen skin on chicken by gently working your fingers between skin and meat, keeping skin attached on 1 side and being careful not to tear skin. Rub butter mixture evenly under skin of each piece of chicken, then rub top of chicken with butter remaining on your hands. Season with salt and pepper.

Ingredients you will need

Salt And Pepper

Meat

Butter

Dry Seasoning Rub

Equipment you will use

Roasting Pan

Bake chicken in middle of oven until an instant-read thermometer inserted 2 inches into fleshy part of chicken (do not touch bone) registers 170°F, about 30 minutes.

Ingredients you will need

Whole Chicken

Bone