Best Ever Roasted Chicken

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 whole chicken, about 3 1/2 pounds, defrosted
• 1/4 small onion
• 3 fresh garlic cloves
• 1 teaspoon dried rosemary, dried sage or 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
• 1/2 lemon
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• salt, to taste
• black pepper, to taste

Recipe

• 1 place an oven rack at the second lowest position and preheat the oven to 450.
• 2 spray a chicken grill rack and roasting pan (bottom and top) with cooking spray. set aside.
• 3 remove giblets and discard. rinse the chicken inside and out with cold tap water, removing and discarding any excess fat.
• 4 pat the outside of the chicken dry with a paper towel.
• 5 place the onion quarter in the cavity of the chicken.
• 6 peel the garlic cloves and place them inside the chicken cavity.
• 7 sprinkle the dried rosemary inside the chicken.
• 8 squeeze the juice from the lemon half over the outside of the chicken and then place the lemon half inside the cavity (cut it if necessary to make it fit).
• 9 place the chicken on the prepared roasting rack and place the rack inside the roasting pan.
• 10 rub the outside of the chicken with oil and sprinkle it lightly with salt and black pepper.
• 11 place the pan in the oven and roast until an instant-read thermometer registers 180 when inserted in a thigh ( don't touch the bone), 50 – 60 minutes.
• 12 remove the chicken from the oven and let stand 10 minutes before cutting it into serving pieces.