Roast Chicken with Thyme and Onions

Name: Roast Chicken with Thyme and Onions
Prep time: 1 h 25 min
Cook time: 1 h 25 min
Total time: 1 h 25 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 118 milliliters butter, softened; 2 kilograms whole chickens; 8 sprigs fresh thyme; 8 cloves garlic, unpeeled; 2 lemons; 3 Tbsps olive oil; 2 larges onions, peeled and quartered; 10 servings salt and pepper to taste; 6 shallots, coarsely chopped

You can never have too many main course recipes, so give Roast Chicken with Thyme and Onions a try. This recipe covers 21% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains around 43g of protein, 48g of fat, and a total of 636 calories. This recipe serves 10. Head to the store and pick up olive oil, chickens, shallots, and a few other things to make it today. 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. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free and primal diet.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease a medium baking dish.

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Pierce lemons several times with a fork, and place 1 inside each chicken cavity. Arrange chickens in the center of the prepared baking dish.

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Whole Chicken

Lemon

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Place onions, shallots, and garlic around the chickens.

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Shallot

Garlic

Onion

Sprinkle vegetables with olive oil, and season with salt and pepper.

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Spread butter over the chickens, and line each with thyme sprigs.

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Fresh Thyme

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Bake 20 minutes in the preheated oven. Increase temperature to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C), and continue baking 30 minutes, or until exterior of chicken is golden brown, meat is no longer pink, and juices run clear. Allow to cool about 15 minutes before serving.

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