Impressive Roast Chicken
Perfect crispy skin, tender juicy meat, and delicious potatoes underneath. This simple and easy roast chicken always produces the most Impressive meal.
Ingredients
- 1 russet potato large
- 1 3-4 lb whole chicken (I prefer air chilled)
- olive oil
- kosher salt
- black pepper
- 2 tsp thyme leaves (fresh or dried)
- 1 head garlic
- 1 lemon
- kitchen string
- 1/2 C dry white wine
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Slice potato into ΒΌ" thick round slices. Place in the bottom of your skillet or pan.
- Pat chicken dry and place on top of the potatoes in the pan. Slice lemon in half and insert into the cavity of the chicken. Take bulb of garlic and cut it in half and place in the cavity of the chicken, skin and all. Use kitchen twine to tie the legs of the chicken together using figure eights and then simple knots. Rub 1 TBSP olive oil onto the skin of the chicken. Sprinkle evenly with 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp pepper and thyme leaves.
- Place in the oven and roast for 1 hour and 10 minutes.
- Pull chicken out, and increase oven temp to 450 degrees. Pour wine into bottom of pan and place chicken back in the oven and continue to cook for 20 minutes.
- Pull chicken out of oven and allow to rest for 15 minutes.