Roasted Chicken

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If you feel like you are in a festive mood or you just have time to stay in and watch the oven, this is an easy recipe and is very delicious.

  • 1 Roasting chicken
  • 1 whole bulb garlic (not 1 clove)
  • Rosemary leaves
  • Salt and pepper

Wash the chicken, remove the giblets from the cavity and wash them too. Replace them back in the cavity if desired, but don’t include the neck.

Shake some salt and pepper on the chicken according to your taste and rub them on the skin. Shake some salt and pepper inside the cavity too.

Cut the garlic bulb in half crosswise and stuff both inside the chicken. One half facing up and the other facing down. Pull off a few leaves from the Rosemary twig and spread them on the chicken making them stick to the skin as much as possible and rub them on the skin. Put the rest of the twig inside the cavity. Transfer the chicken in a roasting pan.

Roast in preheated 350°F oven for 1 ½ to 2 hours. It should read 180°F in a thermometer stuck in the thickest part and the skin is golden and crisp. Baste occasionally when almost done to prevent from drying.

You can also cover the chicken with an aluminum foil during the first hour then remove the foil to brown the skin.

Adobong Patatas is a good accompaniment.