Roast Chicken with Cumin, Paprika and Allspice

Submitted by yooper

"The Middle Eastern spices infuse a wonderful, exotic flavor to the chicken. The aroma of this roasting in your oven may inspire you to belly dance!"

 

• Ready In: 2hrs 5mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 2721.55 g roasting chickens
• 29.58 ml olive oil
• 7.39 ml ground cumin
• 4.92 ml garlic powder
• 4.92 ml onion powder
• 4.92 ml ground allspice
• 4.92 ml paprika
• 2.46 ml salt
• 2.46 ml ground black pepper
• 1 large lemon, halved

directions

1. Preheat oven to 375.
2. Rinse chicken; pat dry.
3. Place chicken on rack in large roasting pan.
4. Stir oil and next 7 ingredients in small bowl to form paste.
5. Rub spice paste all over chicken.
6. Roast chicken 1 hour.
7. Squeeze juice from lemon halves over chicken, place lemon halves inside main cavity.
8. Continue to roast until chicken is cooked through and thermometer inserted into thickest part of thigh registers 175, about 1 hour longer.
9. Transfer to platter, let stand 15 minutes.

Reviews

[Farhat H.]

Too good Thanks

 

[Zaatar]

This is an excellent recipe. I've been making it for a while now but never posted a review. I keep the spice mix around for grilled chicken breasts as well. I serve it with yogurt cucumber sauce on the side.<br/>Thanks yooper!

 

[Tina and Dave]

Excellent moist and super-tasty chicken! Thanks!

 

[Queen Dana]

This was delicious. I didn't make any changes and rubbed the paste onto the chicken underneath the skin.

 

[KatrinaLaBonn]

Delicious! I didn't have any allspice, but I read that a mix of cinnamon and nutmeg is a good alternative, so that's what I used. I cooked only 2 chicken breasts, but slathered the entire amount of seasoning all over them. Yum!