Simple Butterflied Roast Chicken


(Kevin Ruther) #1

out of oven

Ingredients:

  • One butterflied chicken
  • 2 of each color carrots (purple, white, orange)
  • Two stalks celery
  • 1/2 leek
  • 1 onion
  • Butter & Olive Oil
  • Salt & Pepper
  • Rosemary & Lemon
  • White wine for sauce (optional)

Directions:
400 deg. F for 60 minutes or fully cooked. What it looks like going into the oven.

  • Prepare veggies (quarter onion, chop celery and leeks, peel and chop carrots. Set aside scraps for broth)
  • Prepare chicken (stuff the butter under skin, rub with rosemary, salt & pepper)
  • Place all ingredients in baking tray with foil or silicone mat.
  • (optional: you can place backbone on tray to roast for stock)
  • (optional: you can halve the lemon, squeeze the juice and roast the lemon on tray if desired)
  • Drizzle olive oil over everything.
  • Salt and Pepper veggies.
  • Put in oven at 400 deg. F for 60 minutes or until fully cooked.
  • Plate food.
  • Squeeze lemon on top of meal as desired.
  • If making lunches, put the meat on the bottom, then veggies on top to keep meat moist during microwaving.

Sauce

  • If you used a lot of fat, pour out ingredients into a large pot, then add a little white wine.
  • If there’s stuff stuck to bottom, use the white wine to loosen first.
  • Boil off some liquid (reduce). Color should brown a little.
  • Drizzle sauce over veggies and meat.

Broth
I use same pot for broth using the roasted backbone and bones from thighs/legs after meal. I also put the veggie scraps from the prep in the pot. Add in seasoning and start your broth.