This beautiful Herbed Roasted Chicken with Garlic and Lemon will have your family running to the kitchen table. It takes minutes to prepare and pop into your oven.
To begin, preheat your oven to 450 degrees. Pat a roasting chicken dry with paper towels and place it in a roasting pan.
In a small dish, combine 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil with a teaspoon of thyme leaves, parsley, and crushed rosemary leaves, 1/2 teaspoon each of rubbed sage, black pepper, and sea salt. Give these a stir.
Spread this mixture all over the chicken.
Now, cut a fresh lemon in half and crush 6 whole cloves of garlic. No need to peel them first.
Stick the garlic and lemon inside the chicken.
Tuck the tips of the wings underneath and it is ready for the oven. Bake this for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until it tests done with a meat thermometer. Monitor the chicken to make sure it doesn’t get too brown. If it is, simply cover with the lid of the roasting pan, or with a tent of foil, and continue baking until it is done.
Let this gorgeous bird rest for 15 minutes before you cut it up to serve.
Enjoy!
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Lemon and Garlic Herbed Roasted Chicken
Ingredients
- 1 whole chicken, gizzards and such removed and discarded
- 2 Tb extra virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon thyme leaves
- 1 teaspoon parsley
- 1 teaspoon crushed rosemary
- 1/2 teaspoon rubbed sage
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 whole lemon
- 6 cloves garlic
Instructions
- To begin, preheat your oven to 450 degrees. Pat a roasting chicken dry with paper towels and place it in a roasting pan.
- In a small dish, combine 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil with a teaspoon of thyme leaves, parsley, and crushed rosemary leaves, 1/2 teaspoon each of rubbed sage, black pepper, and sea salt. Give these a stir.
- Spread this mixture all over the chicken.
- Now, cut a fresh lemon in half and crush 6 whole cloves of garlic. No need to peel them first.
- Stick the garlic and lemon inside the chicken.
- Tuck the tips of the wings underneath and it is ready for the oven. Bake this for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until it tests done with a meat thermometer (165 degrees.) Monitor the chicken to make sure it doesn't get too brown. If it is, simply cover with the lid of the roasting pan, or with a tent of foil, and continue baking until it is done.
- Let this gorgeous bird rest for 15 minutes before you cut it up to serve.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition
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Delicious recipe
roasted chicken was one of my favorites that mom used to make. This looks delicious!
That is one gorgeous chicken. Makes me drool to look at it.
My mouth is watering!! LOVE Roast chicken
Roast chicken is the perfect comfort food. Every time my son is home from school I have to make a roast chicken dinner at least once. This looks fabulous.
This is one of our favorite meals – Your photos are amazing! I can smell the chicken roasting…we may be having that for dinner tonight!
looks delish! love a good roast chicken with plenty of garlic.
There is nothing nicer than a roasted chicken! My Mom loves chicken, I often joke chicken farmers should send her a christmas card. I will definitely be sharing your recipe with her. Loving participating in #SundaySupper. So much inspiration from the great recipes that are shared each week.
That chicken is so beautiful! I love a perfect roast chicken and your pictures are making me hungry!
I’ll bet this chicken smells positively amazing while it’s cooking – it looks beautiful too.
Love the simplicity of this recipe. Thanks for sharing :)
That is one lovely looking chicken. Thanks for sharing the details!
Looks beautiful! My mom taught me to put the herbs under the skin, but I love it your way too– all that crispy delicious roasted skin.
So easy and so taty!
I love herbed anything! Love this and I’m sure my Mom would too.
I’d have to roast two so I could just eat the skin off of one in the kitchen and use it for salad or sandwiches, Constance. The family would never have to know, right? That looks sooooooo good!
They would NEVER know! LOL
Love roasted chicken with lemon inside and lots of nice herbs and garlic are always good too!
This looks so delicious! Roasted is the best!