OVEN ROASTED CHICKEN – The Southern Woman Cooks

This oven-roasted rooster is very easy and loaded with scrumptious taste! Add this to Sunday dinner!

❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE

We like to make this roasted rooster on a Sunday and luxuriate in it over the week. This rooster is ideal to make chicken salad, or simply get pleasure from a rooster breast with a scrumptious meal, make rooster soup, rooster dumplings or any rooster dishes you want. It’s versatile too, you possibly can change up the spices.

SWAPS

This can be a versatile recipe; you possibly can change up the spices, and it may also be used on a turkey. This recipe may be used on a turkey breast chances are you’ll simply have to regulate the spices.

⭐TIP

You wish to guarantee the interior temperature reaches 165 levels. Additionally, you will wish to let the rooster relaxation for about 20 minutes earlier than slicing or serving. This may maintain the rooster moist!

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Oven Roasted Hen

Judy Yeager

This oven roasted rooster is very easy to make and tremendous versatile! You should use this rooster in many alternative recipes and it is nice to make on Sunday for dinner.

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook dinner Time 1 hour hr 30 minutes minutes

Whole Time 1 hour hr 45 minutes minutes

Course Foremost Course

Delicacies American

• 1 entire roasting rooster
• 1 stick unsalted butter
• 1 tablespoon dried rosemary or about 3 sprigs of recent
• 1 tablespoon dried thyme or 3 tablespoons recent
• 2 teaspoons onion powder
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons pepper
• Melted butter for basting
• Water to cowl backside of roasting pan

• Wash your entire rooster and minimize stick of butter into small pats with knife. Pull up the pores and skin on the entrance of the rooster add 3 or 4 pats of butter below the pores and skin. Add butter in crevices by every leg and every wing. Add some butter within the neck space.

• Soften about 3 tablespoons butter and brush the outer facet of the rooster. Sprinkle rosemary, thyme, onion powder, salt and pepper all around the rooster. You should use kind of of those spices as you want.

• Add sufficient water to cowl backside of roasting pan and bake uncovered basting the rooster with melted butter at 30 and 60 minutes.

• Bake in a preheated 425 diploma oven for 90 minutes till inside temperature reaches 165 levels on a meat thermometer. Let relaxation about 20 minutes earlier than serving.

We make 2 every time by doubling this recipe. We love making rooster salad and having rooster to make use of in wraps or with meals. You may add a complete onion within the cavity together with some celery items in the event you like. May additionally add greens within the pan with the rooster resembling potatoes and carrots.

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