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Herb Roasted Butterflied Chicken Recipe

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"It cooked up so moist and succulent I gave it four stars because I added whole garlic cloves and carrots, sliced lemon and orange on the bottom.l half way through added white wine then basted it, Perfect...."
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Ingredients
  • 1 whole chicken, 3 - 4 lbs.
  • 1 tablespoon butter or oil
  • 2 large bunches fresh herb sprigs
  • salt and pepper
Container: rimmed baking sheet
Directions
PREP
20 mins
COOK
45 mins
READY IN
1.25 hrs
  • Preheat oven to 450, with oven rack slightly below center.
  • Trim off any lumps of fat from the chicken; rinse and pat dry.
  • With the chicken breast side down, tail towards you, begin at one side of the tail and cut through skin, meat and bones to the neck end. Repeat on the other side of the tail. Lift out the backbone and save it for stock. Turn chicken over, laid out flat, and press down on breast to flatten it.
  • Oil a rimmed baking sheet large enough to hold the flattened chicken. Scatter herb sprigs over the sheet. Use enough to keep the chicken from resting directly on the sheet. If there aren't enough herbs, add some chopped onions and/or celery.
  • Salt and pepper the inside of the chicken and arrange it cut-side down, flattened on the bed of herbs. Brush or rub skin with butter or oil. Salt and pepper the skin.
  • Roast skin-side up until golden brown and crispy and an instant-read thermometer registers 160 - 165 in the thigh, about 45 minutes.
Butterflying (splitting and flattening) the chicken allows it to roast in half the time of whole chicken without losing any of the delicious flavor and crispy skin that makes roast chicken everybody's favorite. The butterflying process is easy to do and takes only a few minutes and a sturdy scissors. Use whatever herbs are available: tarragon, rosemary and thyme are especially tasty.
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"It cooked up so moist and succulent I gave it four stars because I added whole garlic cloves and carrots, sliced lemon and orange on the bottom.l half way through added white wine then basted it, Perfect. Will be making this again..."
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