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Easiest Roast Chicken Ever

Amish Easiest Roast Chicken Ever

Flavorful and simple
5 from 1 vote
Course Main Course
Cuisine American, Amish

Ingredients
  

  • ½ cup butter softened
  • zest from one lemon
  • 4 sprigs rosemary leaves removed and minced
  • ½ cup lemon juice
  • 2 whole lemons
  • 1 tablespoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon pepper

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 400*F.
  • Position an oven rack in the upper third of the oven.
  • Remove the innards from the chicken and pat the chicken dry with a cloth. Place breast side down in a medium roasting pan.
  • Pour the lemon juice all over the chicken, both inside and out
  • .In a small bowl, combine butter, lemon zest and chopped rosemary.
  • Spread mixture all over the chicken, including the cavity
  • .Season all over with salt and pepper, including the cavity.
  • Prick 2 whole lemons three times each in three different places with a fork and place them deep in the chicken .
  • Put the chicken in the oven, lower the oven temperature to 350*F, and roast, uncovered, for 15 minutes.
  • Remove the roasting pan from the oven.
  • Turn the chicken breast side up. Return the chicken to the oven for about 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes.
  • Remove from the oven and let the chicken sit for 10 minutes before carving.cPour the juices from the roasting pan on top of the sliced chicken.
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