Slow Cooker Lemon Pepper Chicken

Name: Slow Cooker Lemon Pepper Chicken
Prep time: 5 h 15 min
Cook time: 5 h 15 min
Total time: 5 h 15 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 59 milliliters butter, softened; 1 teaspoon dried thyme; 2 cloves garlic, lightly crushed, or more to taste; 1 slice (1-inch thick) slice of lemon; 1 teaspoon lemon pepper; 2 Tbsps extra-virgin olive oil; 2 teaspoons seasoned salt; 907 grams whole chicken, giblets removed

Slow Cooker Lemon Pepper Chicken might be just the main course you are searching for. Watching your figure? This gluten free and primal recipe has 402 calories, 21g of protein, and 35g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 10% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 4. Head to the store and pick up butter, seasoned salt, chicken, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the butter you could follow this main course with the Cinnamon Butter Cake as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 5 hours and 15 minutes.

Instructions

Rinse chicken, pat dry with paper towels, and use your fingers to loosen the skin over the breast and thighs.

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Whole Chicken

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Paper Towels

Stir butter and lemon pepper in a small bowl and insert seasoned butter beneath the loosened skin using a teaspoon. Push butter from spoon using the skin.

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Lemon Pepper

Butter

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Bowl

Place lemon slice and garlic cloves into the chicken cavity.

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Whole Garlic Cloves

Whole Chicken

Lemon

Place chicken into a slow cooker. Rub skin with olive oil and sprinkle seasoned salt, thyme, and cracked black pepper over the bird.

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Cracked Black Peppercorns

Seasoned Salt

Olive Oil

Whole Chicken

Thyme

Dry Seasoning Rub

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Slow Cooker

Cook on High for 3 hours; reduce heat to Low and cook until chicken is very tender and an instant-read meat thermometer inserted into the thickest part of a thigh, not touching bone, reads at least 160 degrees F (70 degrees C), 2 to 3 more hours. If desired, cook bird on Low setting 6 to 8 hours.

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Meat

Bone