Roasted Chicken
- 1 broiler-fryer chicken (about 3 lb.)
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 4 sprigs fresh rosemary
- 4 small potatoes, quartered
- 3 medium carrots, halved and quartered
- 1 small onion, quartered
- 1 small fennel bulb, chopped
- 1/2 c. water
- Rinse chicken,
- pat dry with paper towels.
- Remove any excess fat from inside chicken.
- Starting at the neck opening, use your fingers to loosen skin from the meat to create a pocket on each side of breast.
- Leave skin attached to the breast bones.
- Rub the garlic onto the meat underneath the skin.
- Place the rosemary under the skin.
- Place the chicken, breast side up, on a rack in a shallow roasting pan.
- Loosely stuff with some of the potatoes, carrots, onions and fennel.
- Place remaining vegetables in pan around chicken.
- Skewer the neck skin to the back of chicken and tie legs to tail.
- Insert meat thermometer in thickest part of thigh.
- Pour water into bottom of pan.
- Roast, uncovered, at 400u0b0 for 30 minutes.
- Turn vegetables over and roast, uncovered, 30 minutes or until thermometer registers 180u0b0 to 185u0b0 and chicken is no longer pink.
- Transfer vegetables to serving dish and keep warm.
- Loosely cover the chicken with foil.
- Let stand 10 minutes before carving.
- Serve the chicken with vegetables.
- Remove and discard skin before eating.
chicken, clove garlic, rosemary, potatoes, carrots, onion, fennel bulb, water
Taken from www.cookbooks.com/Recipe-Details.aspx?id=972221 (may not work)