Great recipe for "Perfect Roast Chicken"! I was able to use this for a 7 lb. bird so if you've got something smaller I'd cut the recipe in half. I didn't have garlic salt so I used a bit of salt mixed with garlic powder. I also opted to add a bit of onion powder to the mix. I put it in the roaster and covered it with non-stick foil and let it set in the fridge all day. I stuffed the cavity with some onion and celery let it come to room temp. and baked it for about three hours and it smelled divine. This was so incredibly moist, tender, and delicious without a ton of effort - great recipe!
We thought this was delicious! I 3/4'd the recipe for an almost 5 pound chicken (Trader Joe's), and it was plenty! I did put most of the butter (not margarine) either under the skin or in the cavity, otherwise following the directions. You could add whatever you wanted to the cavity (onion? garlic?), but whatever, this is delicious. Most of the butter doesn't stick to the chicken, but it certainly makes a great chicken, let me tell you! And right now I've had the carcass and all the other bones, carrots, celery, and onion in a pot so that I will have the best broth in the world. We will have several meals from this chicken! Thanks so much for the recipe!
Delicious! I didn't change the portions of ingredients but I did distribute them differently.... 1) Half of the rub was more than enough to coat the chicken under the skin AS WELL AS over the skin. 2) I mixed the other half of the rub with some chopped onions (about half an onion) and 4 minced garlic cloves and stuffed the inside of the chicken with that. AMAZING flavor. The chicken turned out so moist and delicious and the skin was nice and crispy.
I used butter and mixed it with the herbs then added fresh garlic and some lemon. Wonderful!
I've been roasting my chickenS as well as turkeys this way for years. IMHO this uses way too much marg. For a chicken I'd say 1/4 cup butter is plenty. Here's a tip I recently learned. Unwrap your chicken from it's packaging and leave in the fridge overnight to air dry the skin then your butter will rub in much better! The whole idea of using this method is that YOU DON'T HAVE TO BASTE!
This is my first time to rate a recipe on the site! But this one was the best roast chicken I have ever made! The only thing I did different was to put some of the rub under the skin also as well as rubbing it all over & put half a lemon in the cavity! Juicy & delish. This will definitely be my go to for roast chix.
Used fresh herbs real butter and added some lemon and vegetables but didn't cook in a bag this turned out to be a real winner. Super juicy and moist. Hubby kept saying it was the best he ever had even better than his mom's. Thank you for sharing. Will definitely make again:)
definitely juicy! i added onion powder paprika and season salt. i also dotted the chicken with half of the butter mixture and melted the rest and poured over the chicken. i also flipped the chicken every 45 min while in the over.
I have tried so many roasted chicken recipes and this one is the best!!!! Only used 1/2 cup of butter (not margarine)....everything else was the same. Also use the pan drippings to make the most delicious gravy you've ever had. I've been eating it spoonful after spoonful. I'm going to go eat some more now. Lol
