Roast Chicken with Onions and Carrots
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Recipe type: Main Course
Author: Jillian
Ingredients
  • 4-5 pound chicken
  • 3 medium onions, peeled and halved
  • 3 washed unpeeled carrots, cut in logs
  • 2 tsp kosher salt
  • 5 grinds of black pepper
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 450°F.
  2. Rinse the chicken, pull out the innards, then dry it very well with kitchen towels, or paper towels.
  3. Cut 1 onion in half, remove onion skin, and insert onion halves into cavity.
  4. Salt and pepper the cavity
  5. Truss the bird with butcher's twine(see link to Michael Ruhlman's tutorial above). My chicken is not perfectly trussed as you can see, but I will keep practicing.
  6. Sprinkle salt and grind pepper over the entire exterior of the chicken.
  7. Add vegetables to dutch oven
  8. Add chicken to dutch oven, cover and place in preheated oven.
  9. I cook my chicken 20 minutes per pound.
  10. -15 minutes before it is done, uncover and allow skin to brown and crisp, for presentation and if you are going to eat the skin.
  11. Take dutch oven out of oven
  12. Take chicken out of dutch oven carefully with tongs
  13. Let it rest for 15 minutes on a cutting board.
  14. Remove the twine.
  15. Carve or chop into pieces, wings, legs, thighs, breasts
  16. Save bones and make stock
Recipe by Food Filled Life at http://foodfilledlife.com/2012/07/08/roast-chicken-with-onions-and-carrots/