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Roast Chicken With Rosemary Garlic Paste

Here's how you make Roast Chicken With Rosemary Garlic Paste
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  • Servings: 6
  • Prep: 15m
  • Cook: 1.5h
    • The following recipe serves 6 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 1/4 cup rosemary leaves, chopped
  • 2 garlic cloves, chopped
  • 1/2 teaspoon peppercorns
  • 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt (or sea salt)
  • 4 teaspoons olive oil
  • 5 to 6 pound whole chicken (backbone and neck removed)
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Combine the rosemary with the next 3 ingredients (-salt -- if you choose to add juniper berries they are also added now) in a mortar and pestle and crush them until a smooth paste forms. Mix in the oil.

  • Step 2: Rinse chicken and pat it dry.

  • Step 3: Rub 1 teaspoon of the herb mixture over the bone side of the chicken. Turn chicken over and open like a book, place chicken skin side up on a work surface. Loosen skin from breast and thigh and rub remaining herb mixture under the loosened skin. Any remaining herb mixture rub on the outside of the chicken.

  • Step 4: Place rosemary sprigs in a 13 x 9 x 2 baking dish. Place chicken skin side up on top of rosemary sprigs.

  • Step 5: Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

  • Step 6: Roast chicken uncovered for 1 1/2 hours or until meat thermometer registers 170 degrees F.

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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