Roasted Beer Butt Lime Chicken

Name: Roasted Beer Butt Lime Chicken
Prep time: 2 h 10 min
Cook time: 2 h 10 min
Total time: 2 h 10 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 340 grams 1/2 beer; 2 teaspoons dried rosemary; 1 clove garlic, minced; 2 teaspoons ground black pepper; 0 red onion, peeled; 1 teaspoons salt; 237 milliliters water; 2 kilograms whole chicken

Need From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 2 hours and 10 minutes. It can be enjoyed any time, but it is especially good for Father's Day. If you have onion, rosemary, garlic, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the salt you could follow this main course with the Apple Turnovers Recipe as a dessert.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Rinse the chicken, inside and out, and pat skin dry with paper towels.

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Whole Chicken

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Paper Towels

Oven

Squeeze juice from lime halves over the outside of the chicken and place the squeezed halves in the cavity.

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Whole Chicken

Juice

Lime

Sprinkle cavity with minced garlic. Stir salt, black pepper, and rosemary in a small bowl and season the outside of the chicken with the mixture.

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Minced Garlic

Black Pepper

Rosemary

Whole Chicken

Salt

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Bowl

Place chicken upright in a roasting pan, with the beer can inserted into the cavity far enough so the chicken doesn't fall over.

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Whole Chicken

Beer

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Roasting Pan

Place the onion into the neck cavity to block steam from escaping.

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Onion

Pour water into the bottom of the pan.

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Water

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Frying Pan

Roast the chicken upright in the preheated oven until sizzling and an instant-read meat thermometer inserted into the thickest part of a thigh reads 180 degrees F (80 degrees C), 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Baste occasionally with pan drippings.

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Meat

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Kitchen Thermometer