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Easy Roast Chicken
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Course
Chicken, Dinner, Main Course, Poultry
Cuisine
American
Ingredients
4-5
lb
roasting chicken
1/3
c
olive oil
1
medium onion
quartered
1/4
t
thyme
1/4
t
rosemary
2
garlic cloves
minced
salt
pepper
Instructions
Wash and dry chicken inside and out with paper towels.
In a small bowl, mix olive oil, thyme, rosemary, and garlic.
Rub oil on inside and outside surface of chicken.
Salt and pepper chicken per taste, inside and out.
Add onion to inside cavity of chicken.
Place chicken, breast side up, in a shallow baking pan filled with 1/2 c water.
Cover with foil and bake in a 350 degree preheated oven for 2 1/2 hours, basting every half hour.
Remove foil during last 45-60 minutes of cooking so chicken can brown.
Keyword
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