Now this could be the worlds easiest dinner, and most delicious unless you are a vegetarian. Sorry. But I LOVE a fresh organic roasted chicken. If you are a big sandwich kind of person please rethink when you buy prepackaged meats (please), they all have added sugar to them. Check in your fridge or the next time you go food shopping. Rather then roast a whole chicken, slice it up and keep it for your snacks, sandwiches, salads.
All you need for this is time, but you can easily do this during the weekends.
Roast Chicken with Lemon and Herbs
Ingredients
1 Medium Organic Chicken. Always go for the organic.
1 Whole lemon
2 Tbs Olive Oil
Herbs of your choice
2 Garlic Cloves
1 Yellow Onion.
Optional (a cup of coffee)
Preheat your oven to 175 C or whatever the guidance is on your oven. Get a nice tray for the bird and place it in there. Rub and massage and really get the thing covered in the oil, top and bottom. Next start stuffing. I slice the lemon in 2 and squeeze some of it and then pop it in, next add the garlic cloves, which you press with the flat side of the knife to release the oils and lovely smell, next just quarter the onion and press it in. I also add rosemary, thyme and oregano in the cavity.
Next spice, and drench the surfaces with your choice of spices and herbs. I am going through a chilli phase and love it on this! But use what you have at home and what you like! Next I like to pour a cup of coffee in the tray, when basting for the first time you can use another cup of coffee or just baste using the remaining juices.
Pop in the oven for 1 1/2 hours and baste every 20 - 30 mins. Sounds like hard work? It is not at all, super simple really, and worth it in the end.
My coffee soaked roasted chicken. Very very good!
Roast chicken in coffee and thrown in some root vegetables in the roasting pan!
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