Description
A comforting classic: roast chicken.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 whole chicken, about 3 lb (1.3kg)
- 1 scant tablespoon (20g) sea salt
- 1 teaspoon (2g) finely chopped fresh rosemary
- 1 teaspoon (2g) fennel seed or fennel pollen
- 1 small lemon
- 1–2 medium cloves of garlic, with skin on.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F/180C
- Combine salt, rosemary and fennel in a small bowl
- Rinse the chicken under cold running water, inside and out. Shake dry.
- Pierce the lemon with a knife.
- Insert the lemon and garlic into the cavity of the chicken.
- Place the chicken in a roasting pan and rub the bird with salt/seasoning mixture.
- Roast until juices run clear and the temperature take at the thigh reaches 160F/71C
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 1 hour