Steps to Make Gordon Ramsay Lemon Roast Chicken

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Place the chicken in a large roasting pan. Liberally salt and pepper the inside of the chicken. Place chicken breast side up on a rack in a roasting pan. Squeeze the remaining lemon over chicken; rub with remaining spice mixture.

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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have lemon roast chicken using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon Roast Chicken:

1. Get 1 whole chicken
2. Take 2 lemons
3. Get 1/2 cup unsalted butter
4. Get 2 tsp salt
5. Prepare 1 tsp black pepper
6. Make ready 4 cloves garlic
7. Get 1 tsp smoked paprika
8. Prepare 1-2 onions quartered

Drizzle this oil/juice mixture over the chicken. Transfer chicken breast side up to a large oven-safe skillet. Drizzle chicken all over with melted butter (mmmmmmm) and. Place the chicken, skin side down, on top of the onion and brush with about half the oil and.

Instructions to make Lemon Roast Chicken:

1. Heat oven to 450. Zest and juice 1 lemon. Heat the lemon juice and the butter together in a small saucepan and set aside.
2. Sprinkle the chicken cavity with 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon of the black pepper
3. Gently slide two fingers under the skin of the breast and rub half of the zest, 1/4 teaspoon of the blackpepper and the 1 tsp paprika onto the whole chicken.
4. Take a full lemon and place it and the garlic in the cavity.
5. Tie the legs together with butcher's twine and season the outside of the bird with the remaining 1 teaspoon salt and 1/4 tsp of the black pepper and remaining zest and garlic.
6. Place on a rack in a small roasting pan, with onions around the chicken and roast for 15 minutes.
7. Reduce heat to 350 Continue to roast, and baste every 15 minutes with the prepared lemon butter for about 1 hour.
8. Let the chicken rest at least 15 minutes to allow the juice to settle before serving. You can serve it with steamed vegetables or baked potatoes. Enjoy your meal.

Drizzle chicken all over with melted butter (mmmmmmm) and. Place the chicken, skin side down, on top of the onion and brush with about half the oil and. Uncover, toss the potatoes around and spoon some of the pan juices over the chicken. Cut the lemons in half and squeeze the juice of one lemon all over the chicken. Place the six lemon halves (if they'll fit!) and the three remaining rosemary leaves into the cavity of the bird.

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