The BEST Roasted Chicken
Enjoy this juicy, roasted chicken recipe that will check off all your comfort food needs!
Ingredients
- 1 whole roaster chicken giblets removed
- 1 stick butter
- 1 onion
- 1 TBSP Italian seasoning
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 TBSP olive oil
- 1 TBSP garlic powder
- 2 TBSP salt
- 1 TBSP pepper
Instructions
- Wash chicken and remove bag of gizzards and set aside. Pat dry chicken with paper towels.
- Place chicken in baking dish. Pre heat oven to 350° F
- Cut slits in chicken skin all over with knife.
- Slice up butter and place butter under skin.
- Sprinkle 2 TBSP oil all over outside of chicken
- Season chicken INSIDE and OUTSIDE with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and Italian seasoning
- Rub chicken with hands and massage all the spices in
- Cut onion loosely ( small or big slices of onion your choice!) and spread out evenly in bottom of the baking dish and inside of chicken.
- Add water to bottom of the baking dish
- Baste chicken with juices from bottom of dish every 30 mins.
- After 1 hour and 40 mins, increase temperature to 400°F for 30 mins. (or until temperature reaches 165 ° F)
- Let chicken rest for 10 minutes before slicing.
Notes
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To make gravy from chicken drippings
- pour drippings into a measuring cup and let the fat settle.
- Take 1/4 cup of fat and put into a saucepan
- Add 1/4 cup flour and mix it up until you make a roux (all the liquid is soaked up)
- Ladle out the rest of the fat in your drippings
- Add enough water or chicken stock to make 2 cups of drippings
- (You can also add 1 bouillon cube if you do not have stock)
- Add mixture to sauce pan and mix with whisk until thickened
- season with salt and pepper