Perfect Roast Chicken Food Network Recipes

PERFECT ROAST CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 500 degrees F.
• In a 9 by 13-inch roasting pan, add the carrots, celery and onions. Season the chicken both inside and out with the kosher salt and white pepper. Squeeze the lemon halves over the chicken and place the rinds inside the cavity. Place the bay leaves inside the cavity. In a small bowl, combine the garlic, rosemary, olive oil and butter. Rub the chicken both inside and out with the garlic rosemary blend and place in the roasting pan.
• Place the pan in the oven and roast the chicken for 40 to 50 minutes, or until the juices run clear. To test this, insert a thermometer in the thickest part of a leg. It should register at 160 degrees internal temperature. Remove the chicken from the oven and allow to cool for 10 to 15 minutes before carving.
• Pour off excess fat from pan and return to heat. Whisk in chicken stock, roasted garlic, white wine and chopped rosemary, scraping up the bits on the bottom of pan. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer. Reduce gravy by half, until thickened.
• Serve chicken with gravy on the side.

PERFECT ROAST CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 475 degrees. Season the inside and outside of the chicken with the salt and pepper. Put the lemon and garlic halves and bay leaf in cavity of chicken. Place chicken on a lightly oiled rack set into a small roasting pan, or on a broaster. Place in oven and roast for one hour, or until done, depending on size of chicken, until instant read thermometer inserted into thickest part of thigh reads 165 degrees, or until thigh joint juices run clear, not pink, when pierced with a knife. Remove chicken from oven and allow to rest in a warm place 10 minutes before carving or cutting into serving pieces.

PERFECT ROASTED CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
• After removing giblets (discard or save for another recipe), salt and pepper inside of chicken.
• Stuff the cavity with thyme, lemon quarters and garlic halves.
• Brush the outside of the chicken with melted butter.
• Salt and pepper outside of chicken.
• Tie the legs together with string (good idea to soak string in water prior so it won't burn in the oven) and tuck the wings under the body.
• Cook in oven for 1 1/2 hours or until done.

PERFECT ROAST CHICKEN

Steps:

• Heat oven to 450 degrees.
• Rinse and dry chicken and sprinkle with salt and pepper inside the cavity as much as you like.
• Place the lemon and ginger slices and garlic cloves inside the cavity.
• Place in a shallow roasting pan and rub on some olive oil.
• Season the outside with more salt and pepper.
• Roast 15 minutes then decrease heat to 375 degrees.
• Roast an additional 65 minutes. Do not open the door during this process.
• Remove from oven and let rest 10 minutes.