The BEST Whole Roasted Chicken

The BEST Whole Roasted Chicken - a classic, tried-and-true recipe for a delicious whole-roasted chicken. Perfect for meal-prep, Sunday Supper or a weeknight dinner!

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Step 1

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Step 2

Celery Roasting Rack:Take the dutch oven and lay down your celery in the middle so it creates a “roasting rack.”

Step 3

Prep Chicken: Place chicken in a dutch oven on top of the celery. Pat the chicken dry with a clean paper towel.

Step 4

Stuff: Rub salt and pepper inside the cavity as best you can and then stuff with sweet yellow onion, orange chunks, lemon chunks and fresh rosemary and thyme.

Step 5

Butter: Place 1/4 cup of softened butter (or ghee) in a small bowl and mix it together with the minced garlic. Then take the garlic butter and rub all over the chicken, in every nook and cranny, and under the skin as best you can.

Step 6

Seasoning: Sprinkle the chicken with salt and pepper so it has a thin layer all over.

Step 7

Garlic: Place the head of garlic (with one end cut off) inside the dutch oven next to the chicken.

Step 8

Oven: Place in the oven on the middle rack, uncovered.

Step 9

Roast + Baste for approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes – 1 hour and 30 minutes or until chicken reaches an internal temperature of 165 degrees F at its thickest part (use an internal meat thermometer). While the chicken is roasting take the remaining butter (or ghee) and melt. Baste the chicken every 30 minutes with melted butter as well as the drippings that will gather in the bottom of the pan.

Step 10

Temp: Once the chicken reaches an internal temp of 165 degrees F. remove from the oven, baste one more time, and then let rest for 10-20 minutes (leave in the dutch oven as it rests as juices will continue to gather that you can then use for gravy).

Step 11

Remove from dutch oven, carve and serve.

Step 12

Drippings: Use the drippings (any juices left over in the bottom of the dutch oven) from the pan to make chicken gravy, if desired.

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