Steps to Make Super Quick Homemade Lemon Roast Chicken

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have lemon roast chicken using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon Roast Chicken:

1. Make ready whole chicken
2. Prepare lemons
3. Make ready unsalted butter
4. Take salt
5. Prepare black pepper
6. Take garlic
7. Get smoked paprika

Instructions to make Lemon Roast Chicken:

1. Heat oven to 240 degrees C . - Zest and juice 1 lemon. Heat the lemon juice and the butter together in a small saucepan and set aside.
2. Sprinkle the chicken cavity with 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon of the black pepper
3. Gently slide two fingers under the skin of the breast and rub half of the zest , 1/4 teaspoon of the blackpepper and the 1 tsp paprika onto the whole chicken.
4. Take a full lemon and place it and the garlic in the cavity.
5. Tie the legs together with butcher's twine and season the outside of the bird with the remaining 1 teaspoon salt and 1/4 tsp of the black pepper
6. Place on a rack in a small roasting pan, and roast for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 180 degrees C.
7. Continue to roast, basting with a brush every 15 minutes with the prepared lemon butter for about 1 hour.
8. Let the chicken rest at least 15 minutes to allow the juice to settle before serving. - You can serve it with steamed vegetables or baked potatoes . - Enjoy your meal.

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