Recipe - Perfect Roast Chicken

1 Three fourths pound Chicken; preferably
freerange organic
2 teaspoon Salt
Three fourths teaspoon Freshly ground black pepper
1 Lemon; cut in half
1 Head garlic; halved
horizontally
1 Bay leaf

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Preheat oven to 475 degrees. Season the inside and outside of the chicken
with the salt and pepper. Put the lemon and garlic halves and bay leaf in
cavity of chicken. Place chicken on a lightly oiled rack set into a small
roasting pan, or on a broaster. Place in oven and roast for one hour, or
until done, depending on size of chicken, until instant read thermometer
inserted into thickest part of thigh reads 165 degrees, or until thigh
joint juices run clear, not pink, when pierced with a knife. Remove chicken
from oven and allow to rest in a warm place 10 minutes before carving or
cutting into serving pieces.

Posted to recipeludigest by molony molony@scsn.net on Mar 09, 1998