OVEN ROASTED CHICKEN – The Southern Girl Cooks

This oven-roasted hen is really easy and loaded with scrumptious taste! Add this to Sunday dinner!

❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE

We like to make this roasted hen on a Sunday and luxuriate in it over the week. This hen is ideal to make chicken salad, or simply take pleasure in a hen breast with a scrumptious meal, make hen soup, hen dumplings or any hen dishes you want. It’s versatile too, you’ll be able to change up the spices.

SWAPS

This can be a versatile recipe; you’ll be able to change up the spices, and it may also be used on a turkey. This recipe is also used on a turkey breast it’s possible you’ll simply have to regulate the spices.

⭐TIP

You wish to guarantee the interior temperature reaches 165 levels. Additionally, you will wish to let the hen relaxation for about 20 minutes earlier than slicing or serving. This can preserve the hen moist!

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Oven Roasted Rooster

Judy Yeager

This oven roasted hen is really easy to make and tremendous versatile! You should use this hen in many alternative recipes and it is nice to make on Sunday for dinner.

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook dinner Time 1 hour hr 30 minutes minutes

Complete Time 1 hour hr 45 minutes minutes

Course Essential Course

Delicacies American

• 1 complete roasting hen
• 1 stick unsalted butter
• 1 tablespoon dried rosemary or about 3 sprigs of recent
• 1 tablespoon dried thyme or 3 tablespoons recent
• 2 teaspoons onion powder
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons pepper
• Melted butter for basting
• Water to cowl backside of roasting pan

• Wash your complete hen and minimize stick of butter into small pats with knife. Pull up the pores and skin on the entrance of the hen add 3 or 4 pats of butter below the pores and skin. Add butter in crevices by every leg and every wing. Add some butter within the neck space.

• Soften about 3 tablespoons butter and brush the outer aspect of the hen. Sprinkle rosemary, thyme, onion powder, salt and pepper all around the hen. You should use kind of of those spices as you want.

• Add sufficient water to cowl backside of roasting pan and bake uncovered basting the hen with melted butter at 30 and 60 minutes.

• Bake in a preheated 425 diploma oven for 90 minutes till inside temperature reaches 165 levels on a meat thermometer. Let relaxation about 20 minutes earlier than serving.

We make 2 every time by doubling this recipe. We love making hen salad and having hen to make use of in wraps or with meals. You may add a complete onion within the cavity together with some celery items in case you like. May additionally add greens within the pan with the hen comparable to potatoes and carrots.

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