Recipes | Roasted Chicken Alongside Lemon, Garlic & Thyme

There is zero ameliorate on rainy Lord's Day than a Classic Roasted Chicken amongst Lemon as well as Thyme... consummate amongst mashed potatoes as well as gravy, of course.  I dearest to create this when we're both abode all day, because it makes the solid odor hence delicious.  Being only roasted chicken as well as vegetables, this is a relatively salubrious dinner.  If y'all create upwards one's heed to instruct the mashed potatoes as well as gravy road (which I intend y'all definitely should), y'all tin command how much gravy as well as the amount of potatoes y'all prepare. 

Another argue I dearest this is because it requires real piddling prep (10 minutes to materials everything inwards the chicken as well as chop the vegetables?) as well as fifty-fifty less construct clean up...  basically a 1 pot dinner.   Just move certain to permit 1 hr for roasting the chicken.  

Classic Roasted Chicken 
with Lemon & Thyme

3-4 pound whole Chicken

2 tablespoons of olive oil

1 teaspoon of Sea Salt

1 teaspoon of Pepper

1 caput of garlic, cutting inwards half

1 lemon, quartered

10 sprigs of thyme

3 carrots, largely chopped

1 yellowish onion, quartered

10 mushrooms, halved
1 1/2 cups of chicken stock

Sprinkle tabular array salt & pepper within the chicken cavity, as well as hence materials it amongst the garlic, lemon & thyme. Place it inwards a dutch oven. Place the vegetables roughly the chicken, as well as hence drizzle them as well as the chicken amongst olive oil. Salt & Pepper generously.

Roast at 425 degrees for 50-60 minutes (depending on the size of your chicken).   Remove the chicken from the pan, embrace amongst foil as well as permit it to rest.  Place the dutch oven on the stove exceed on a medium heat. While stirring, add together two tablespoons of flour to the fatty drippings from the chicken, as well as hence 1 - 1 1/2 cups of chicken stock. Whisk until smooth. Cook five minutes until thick as well as bubbly. If you'd similar to thicker gravy, melt two tablespoons of butter inwards the microwave, as well as hence add together 2-3 tablespoons of flour to it.  Mix it inwards amongst the gravy. 

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