Super Moist Yummy Roast Chicken

I haven't done a roast chicken in ages. I forgot how nice it tastes. How easy it is to make, and how quick to cook. Chicken is very common , and is used a lot in a lot of everyday cooking. Which unfortunately can be a bit boring sometimes. Roast chicken, if not cooked properly or over done can be quite dry. This is a really simple recipe, with easy everyday kitchen ingredients. So lets roll our sleeves up and start cooking.

Roast Chicken

Ingredients

1 whole chicken 1.5kg

Garlic bulb

1 onion

Lots of seasoning

Rosemary

Olive oil

Sweet paprika

Lots of butter

1/2 a lemon

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Cooking Time : 1hour 35 minutes

Total Time: About 2 hours

Level : Easy

Serves: 4/5

Method

Start the oven on first, on 180 degrees. So it will nice and hot for when you finished preparing the chicken and can go straight in the oven. Put the chicken in a roasting tray. Rub some olive oil all over the chicken. Use your hands for better results. Season well all over. Dot butter all over. Get the garlic bulb , loosen them all and cut the heads off. Don't really need to remove the rest of the skin. Stick the garlic everywhere in the chicken. Ex: Between the thighs, the wings , underneath and everywhere you find. This won't burn the garlic and will give a nice flavour to you chicken. Then do the same with the rosemary like you done with the garlic. Cut a round slice out of the lemon and put on top of your chicken, and with the rest of the lemon. Squeeze it onto the chicken from a hight. only a few drops. Cut the onion in half and put on the side of the tray. Stick in the oven for an hour 35 minutes . 

Take out the oven and leave to rest on a chopping board for 10 minutes covered with foil until you start the gravy

Perfect Chicken Gravy

Ingredients

1 tbsp of plain flour

1 chicken stock cube

The garlic used in chicken squeezed

500ml of hot water

Preparation Time: 2 minutes

Cooking Time: 5/6 minutes

Total Time: 7/8 minutes

Level : Easy

Serves: 4/5

Method

After the chicken is left to rest on a chopping board. Take the roasting tray and empty as much of the fat out of it as you can. Put on the hob. From a bit of hight sprinkle over the flour. With a spatula scrape all the flavours of the tray. Crumble up the stock cube. Pour the water in , bring to a boil and leave to simmer for 5 minutes. Take off the heat and pass trough a sieve before pouring it into a gravy bowl.