Lemon and Garlic Roast Chicken

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Total Time:
1 hr 55 min
Prep
20 min
Cook
1 hr 35 min
Yield:
3 to 4 servings
Level:
Easy
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Ingredients

  • 1 (5 to 6-pound) roasting chicken
  • Kosher salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 large bunch fresh thyme
  • 4 lemons
  • 3 heads garlic, cut in 1/2 crosswise
  • 2 tablespoons butter, melted
  • 1/2 pound sliced bacon
  • 1 cup white wine
  • 1/2 cup chicken stock

Directions

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.

Remove the chicken giblets. Rinse the chicken inside and out. Remove any excess fat and leftover pinfeathers and pat the outside dry. Place the chicken in a large roasting pan. Liberally salt and pepper the inside of the chicken. Stuff the cavity with the thyme, reserving enough thyme to garnish the chicken dish, 1 lemon, halved, and 2 halves of the garlic. Brush the outside of the chicken with the butter and sprinkle again with salt and pepper. Tie the legs together with kitchen string and tuck the wing tips under the body of the chicken. Cut 2 of the lemons in quarters and scatter the quarters and remaining garlic around the chicken. Lay the bacon slices over the chicken to cover.

Roast the chicken for 1 hour. Remove the bacon slices from the top of the chicken and set aside. Continue roasting the chicken for an additional 1/2 hour, or until the juices run clear when you cut between a leg and thigh. Remove to a platter and cover with aluminum foil while you prepare the gravy.

Remove all but 2 tablespoons of the fat from the bottom of the pan. Add the wine and chicken stock and bring it to a boil. Reduce the heat, and simmer for 5 minutes, or until reduced by half.

Slice the chicken on a platter. Garnish the chicken platter with the bacon slices, roasted garlic, reserved thyme and 1 lemon, sliced. Serve with the gravy.

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Wine Suggestion for This Recipe

Chardonnay

Chardonnay

Rich, buttery white wine

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  • on February 18, 2013

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    I loved the flavors!!! Will definitely be making again real soon!!!

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  • on January 30, 2013

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    I was so pleased with this recipe. Its simplicity and fancy flavor was exactly what my chicken needed. I couldn't stop making it for at least a month. I find Ina's dishes so sophisticated yet simple and inviting. I always want make something she has demonstrated on her show.

    Marilynn S. Wells

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  • on December 27, 2012

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    There is not a better chicken roasting recipe than this one. I've prepared this dish so many times and everyone goes on about it and at the end of dinner, people commented on how much conversation we had about a chicken.

    Easy, simple, delicious. I served with braised carrots once and with a corn souffle another time. Potatoes roasted with Rosemary are also nice.

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