French Roast Chicken With Lemon Recipes

ROAST CHICKEN WITH LEMON

Steps:

• Working carefully to prevent tearing, loosen the skin over as much of the chicken as possible by slipping your hand under it. Rub the chicken flesh lightly with salt, and slide the herbs under the skin. (You should be able to see them through the skin.)
• Place all the lemon in the chicken's cavity, and cover the chicken in plastic wrap or foil. Refrigerate overnight.
• Heat oven to 400 degrees. Lightly coat the bottom of a roasting pan with olive oil. Unwrap the chicken and place it breast side up in the pan, surrounded by any vegetables to be roasted. Drizzle the vegetables with oil, turning them to coat well. Roast for 20 minutes, then baste the chicken and vegetables with pan juices. If there are no juices, add 1/4 cup water to the pan, scraping the bottom, and baste.
• Reduce temperature to 325 degrees. Continue basting every 10 to 15 minutes until the juices run clear when the chicken is pierced at the thigh, about 20 minutes to a pound. Roast vegetables until browned and caramelized, removing when cooked to taste.
• Transfer the chicken to a platter and keep warm. Remove the lemon from the cavity and place in the roasting pan, mashing it a bit to release the juices. Place pan on low heat and add the chicken stock, scraping the bottom of the pan. Carve the chicken, adding any juices to the pan. Pour the hot juices into a pitcher or gravy boat. Serve the chicken and vegetables, passing the juices separately.

FRENCH ROAST CHICKEN WITH LEMON

Steps:

• Pre-heat the oven to 385F. Put your roasting pan into the oven.
• Order is important. Put the thyme and rosemary into the cavity, followed by the 1/2 lemon and finally the 1/2 onion. Tie the legs together with butcher's twine (look closely in the picture). Rub the chicken with olive oil and then season generously with salt and pepper.
• Place the chicken in the hot pan - it should sizzle - and put it in the oven for 5 minutes. This will prevent the bird from sticking. Remove the pan from the oven and pour 1/2 cup white wine around the chicken. It should sizzle again.
• Return to oven and roast until you hit an internal temperature of 165F in the breast, 175F in the thigh - 45 to 55 minutes. Baste the bird at around the 25 minute mark - just spoon some fat out of the pan and over the bird.
• When you hit temp, pull the chicken from the oven and then transfer it to a cutting board.
• Spoon off all but about 1-2 Tbsp of fat from the pan, taking care only to remove clear fat. Anything liquid with colour is flavour. You want that. You also want all those wonderful brown bits in the bottom of the pan. That's called fond and it's about the best thing you can put into a sauce.
• Heat the pan over medium heat. When it starts to sizzle, add the remaining 1/2 cup of wine. Boil it down, scraping constantly to dissolve the fond, until it's a wonderful sticky glaze. Add the chicken stock and concentrated chicken stock (this puts it over the top) and reduce by about half.
• Once the chicken has rested around 15 minutes carve into quarters (whole legs plus a boneless chicken breast picking up the wing). If this doesn't make sense, google "chicken supreme" images. Same thing except keep the whole wing. Pour any accumulated juices back into your sauce (more flavour), re-heat the sauce if necessary and serve.

ROASTED LEMON CHICKEN

Steps:

• Cut up 1 lemon into 8 pieces and rub the outside of the chicken with the peel side of the pieces and then put the lemon pieces into the chicken with the garlic.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Pour a mixture of half of the olive oil and half of the butter on top and pour the rest inside of the chicken.
• Roast for 1 1/2 hours in a preheated oven of 325 degrees.
• Half-hour before chicken is done roasting pour the juice from the second freshly squeezed lemon over the top and sprinkle the chicken with the chopped parsley and return the chicken to the oven to finish roasting.

ROAST CHICKEN WITH LEMON, GARLIC, AND ROSEMARY

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
• Pat chicken dry and sprinkle salt on all sides and inside the cavity. Sprinkle with black pepper. Pluck the leaves from 1 spring of rosemary and sprinkle on the chicken. Place the other whole sprig inside the cavity along with garlic and lemon.
• Place the chicken on a roasting rack set inside a roasting pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until no longer pink at the bone and the juices run clear, about 1 hour. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the thigh, near the bone, should read 165 degrees F (74 degrees C).

LEMON-ROASTED CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Rinse chicken thoroughly with cold water, empty the cavity, and pat chicken dry with paper towels.
• Place chicken, breast-side down, into a roasting pan. Squeeze juice from 1 1/2 lemons over chicken.
• Mix salt and pepper together in a small bowl and spread mixture all over chicken using your hands.
• Roll 2 lemons on the countertop to soften them a bit. Puncture several times with a fork and cram into the cavity of the chicken.
• Place roasting pan in the preheated oven and lower temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes. Pull out chicken and turn over using wooden spoons or tongs. Return to the oven and continue to bake until no longer pink in the center and juices run clear when the thigh is pricked with a fork, about 1 hour and 15 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the thigh, near the bone, should read 165 degrees F (74 degrees C).
• Let chicken rest for 10 minutes before serving. Cut remaining lemon into slices. Transfer chicken to a serving dish and garnish with lemon slices and fresh rosemary. Pour juices from the roasting pan over the chicken to make it super juicy.

FRENCH ROAST CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425.
• Sprinkle the inside of the chicken with 1/2 teaspoon salt, and then smear in 1 tablespoon of the butter.
• Truss and dry the chicken, and rub the skin with the other half of the butter.
• Baste: Melt butter in a small saucepan with cooking oil.
• Leave on stovetop with a basting brush for later use.
• Back to the chicken: Place the chicken, breast side up, in a shallow small roasting pan.
• Scatter the veggies around it, and set it on the rack in the preheated oven.
• Allow the chicken to brown slightly for 15 minutes, turning on the left side after 5 minutes, then onto the right side for the last 5 minutes.
• Baste with butter quickly after each turn so that the oven does not lose a lot of heat.
• Reduce heat to 350.
• Leave chicken on its side, baste every 8 to 10 minutes, using the butter in the bottom of the roasting pan once you have used up all of the baste in your bowl.
• Watch and adjust oven heat so that the chicken is noisy, but fat is not burning.
• Halfway through estimated roasting time (which is 70-80 minutes; so after about 35 minutes), salt the chicken and turn it onto its other side.
• Continue to baste regularly.
• 15 minutes before end of estimated roasting time, salt again and flip chicken breast side up.
• Continue to baste regularly.
• Chicken will be done when drumstick moves easily in socket and juices run a clear yellow.
• Let sit on a platter 5 to 10 minutes before carving.
• Remove all but 2 tablespoons of fat from the roasting pan.
• Stir in shallot or onion and cook slowly for 1 minute.
• Add stock and boil rapidly over high heat, scraping up bits that are stuck in the pan witha wooden spoon.
• reduce to about 1/2 cup.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Off heat just before serving, swirl in the last 1 to 2 tablespoons butter by bits until it is absorbed.
• Pour a spoon of the sauce onto the chicken, then pour the rest into a gravy boat and serve with the chicken.