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Tangy Lemon Chicken

Here's how you make Tangy Lemon Chicken
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  • Servings: 5
  • Prep: 20m
  • Cook: 2h
    • The following recipe serves 5 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 2 lemons
  • 1 whole roasting chickens (about 5 pounds)
  • Salt, to taste
  • Pepper, to taste
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • 2 tablespoons parsley, fresh, chopped
  • 1 tablespoon thyme, fresh, chopped
  • 1/2 teaspoon rosemary, fresh, chopped
  • 1 yellow onion, peeled and quartered
  • 2 bulbs fennel, cut into wedges
  • 2 red onions, peeled and cut into wedges
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: Heat oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit.

  • Step 2: Juice 1 lemon and quarter remaining lemon.

  • Step 3: Generously season entire chicken with salt and pepper.

  • Step 4: In bowl, combine olive oil, garlic, herbs, and 2 tablespoons lemon juice.

  • Step 5: Spread 1/2 this mixture under skin of chicken being careful not to rip the skin.

  • Step 6: Place lemon and yellow onion quarters in cavity of chicken; tie legs together with chicken twine.

  • Step 7: Spread remaining lemon mixture evenly over chicken.

  • Step 8: Place fennel wedges and red onion wedges in roasting pan and place chicken on top on vegetables.

  • Step 9: Roast 15 minutes.

  • Step 10: Reduce oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

  • Step 11: Roast for 1 hour 15 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes or until thermometer inserted in chicken thigh, not touching bone, reads 170 degrees Fahrenheit.

  • Step 12: Let sit for 10 minutes before slicing

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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