Roasted Lemon-Garlic Chicken with Potatoes

Name: Roasted Lemon-Garlic Chicken with Potatoes
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon black pepper; 2 Tbsps butter, softened; 1 Tbsp minced fresh thyme leaves; 4 garlic cloves, minced and divided; 6 garlic cloves, crushed; 1 teaspoon kosher salt, divided; 2 lemons; 680 grams red potatoes, quartered; 2 kilograms whole chicken

Roasted Lemon-Garlic Chicken with Potatoes might be just the main course you are searching for. Watching your figure? This gluten free recipe has 609 calories, 40g of protein, and 35g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 4. This recipe covers 26% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up lemons, butter, thyme leaves, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the kosher salt you could follow this main course with the Low Fat Crumbs Cake (Kosher-Dairy) as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.

Instructions

Grate rind from lemons to measure 2 tablespoons. Reserve lemons.

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Lemon

Beef

Combine 5 teaspoons rind, 3/4 teaspoon salt, pepper, and 2 minced garlic cloves in a small bowl.

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Whole Garlic Cloves

Pepper

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Salt

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Bowl

Remove and discard chicken giblets and neck. Loosen skin from breast and drumsticks by inserting fingers and gently pushing between skin and meat. Rub rind mixture under loosened skin over flesh. Tuck wing tips under chicken.

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Meat

Chicken Drumsticks

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Dry Seasoning Rub

Place chicken in a shallow dish; refrigerate, uncovered, 4 hours or overnight.

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Whole Chicken

Preheat oven to 42

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Oven

Quarter reserved lemons.

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Lemon

Place lemon quarters and 6 crushed garlic cloves into chicken cavity; tie ends of legs together with cord.

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Whole Garlic Cloves

Whole Chicken

Lemon

Place chicken, breast side up, in a roasting pan.

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Whole Chicken

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Roasting Pan

Bake at 425 for 25 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 375 (do not remove chicken from oven).

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Whole Chicken

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Oven

Bake 40 minutes or until a thermometer inserted into meaty portion of thigh registers 16

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Remove from oven; let stand 15 minutes.

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Oven

Place potatoes in a saucepan; cover with cold water. Bring to a boil. Cook 10 minutes or until tender; drain.

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Potato

Water

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Sauce Pan

Combine potatoes, 1 teaspoon rind, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 2 minced garlic cloves, butter, and thyme. Discard chicken skin; carve.

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Whole Garlic Cloves

Potato

Whole Chicken

Butter

Thyme

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Salt

Wine note: With all the bright lemon woven through this comfort dish, you need a wine with a great squeeze of citrus at its core. Look no further than Columbia Crest's 2009 Two Vine Pinot Grigio (Washington, $8). Lemon expands to pink grapefruit and peach, with a refreshing, zesty finish--all of which make the citrus and thyme on the chicken and potatoes pop. --Sara Schneider

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Pink Grapefruit