Spice Rubbed Flattened Roast Chicken
Gay Lea Foods Co-operative®
"This Moroccan-inspired roast chicken will become your new favourite Sunday night dinner. Making the whole meal in a roasting pan means you can just pop it in the oven and forget about it!"
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Ingredients
1 h 30 m servings 458Original recipe yields 6 servings
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Directions
{{model.addEditText}} Print- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Blend Spreadables butter with ginger, lemon zest, cumin, garlic, salt, and pepper until well combined; set aside.
- Place chicken, back-side-up, with neck facing away on a cutting board. Use a chef's knife or poultry shears to cut along each side of the backbone. Remove and discard backbone. Turn chicken over; turn legs drumsticks-inward and press on breastbone to flatten. Place chicken, cut-side-down in a roasting pan.
- Melt 3 tablespoons (45 mL) butter mixture; toss with potatoes, carrots, parsnips, and green onions. Scatter around chicken.
- Carefully loosen skin over breast meat, legs, and thighs using fingertips. Spread remaining butter mixture evenly under and over skin of chicken.
- Roast, basting occasionally, for 60 to 75 minutes (or until an instant-read thermometer registers 165 degrees F/74 degrees C in thigh and breast meat).
- Cover and rest for 10 minutes. Carve chicken into portions and serve with vegetables.
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Footnotes
- Tips:
- Use Spreadables Butter, Original flavour instead of the Cinnamon & Brown Sugar for an equally delicious roast.
- Replace the roasted vegetables with hot, prepared couscous or rice tossed with the melted butter mixture.
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5/14/2017
Excellent. May 2017/ I used liquid ginger, fresh garlic, fresh lemon zest, and white sugar and cinnamon. I was only making a small dinner for two, so I had one large breast and put all ingre...
11/22/2016
My wife said "it's your turn to make dinner" . This recipe was simple to make and the family liked it!! Adding this recipe to my arsenal list. I just used plain butter and ground ginger as d...