Classic Roast Chicken
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 1 stalk celery
- 1587.57 g roasting chickens
- 2.46 ml dried thyme
- 2.46 ml salt
- 14.79 ml butter, softened, divided
- 1 onion, quartered
directions
- Preheat oven to 475 degrees.
- Slice celery. Sprinkle inside cavity of chicken with thyme and salt; add 1 tsp butter, sliced celery and onion. Rub outside chicken with remaining butter.
- Tuck wing tips under back of chicken. Place chicken breast side down on rack in roasting pan.
- Add enough water to cover bottom of pan. Roast for ten minutes. Reduce temperature to 375 degrees. Roast for 20 minutes longer.
- Turn chicken breast-side up. Roast until chicken is browned, about 30 minutes longer.
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