Barbados Roast Chicken

Submitted by Chocolatl

"This is just a simple roast chicken recipe. From Christmas: a Cook's Tour,"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 5mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 1 (4 -5 lb) whole chickens
• 1 lemon, cut in quarters
• salt and pepper
• 4 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground red pepper
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground coriander

directions

1. Preheat oven to 450°.
2. Rub chicken all over with lemon pieces. Put lemon pieces inside chicken cavity.
3. Rub chicken with salt and pepper.
4. Combine butter, red pepper, garlic and coriander. Smear over the chicken.
5. Roast for 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 375° and roast until juices run clear, approximately 1-1 1/2 hours.

Reviews

[Outta Here]

Very tasty and moist! I took the suggestion of a previous reviewer and put most of the butter mixture under the skin. Cooking time was right on.

 

[Maryland Jim]

Excellent and very easy way of doing chicken. We really liked the spice/seasoning. Will be making this again for sure. Made for Football Pool Conference games.

 

[JackieOhNo!]

This was a nice, moist roast chicken. However, with the amount of cayenne, I thought it would have a little zip, but I didn't notice any. The skin was crisp and tasty, but the seasoned butter did not really penetrate the skin. I would like to try this again, but use the butter mixture directly on meat, underneath the skin. Thanks for posting this. Made for ZWT5 by a Groovy GastroGnome.

 

[LARavenscroft]

In all the years that I've been cooking, I've never roasted a chicken. Don't really know why I haven't tried this before, but I sure wish I'd roasted one much sooner! This recipe is so easy and very very tasty! Just the right amount of spice. The three of us just about polished off the whole thing. Picked off the rest of the meat and boiled the carcass for some very tasty broth for soup. Thanks for posting this Chocolatl! Will definitely do this again! Made for Zaar Stars Tag.

 

[davianng]

Didn't have a lemon. used a lime. Otherwise followeed as written. Smeared spice/butter mixture under skin as suggested by previous chefs. Excellent flavour, and moist chicken meat. Just a very good roast chicken! Made for PRMR 1/11.