Easy  Crispy Roasted Chicken

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To make the perfect roasted chicken you'll need a whole chicken, carrots, celery, leeks, whole garlic head, rosemary, thyme, olive oil, salt and pepper.

ingredients

Seasoning is paramount to the perfect roasted chicken. Salt adds flavour but it also brings the moisture in the skin to the surface to evaporate on roasting.

Step 1

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A trivet of vegetables and herbs is used to lift the chicken off the base of the pan but also add flavor to the tray for gravy.

Step 2

It's important to baste the skin throughout roasting as this promotes crispiness. Using the fat that accumulates in the tray helps with this.

Step 3 

Recipe tips!

Resting the roasted chicken after the roasting time is important to let all the juices settle. It also makes it easier to carve.

Step 4 

The temperature for roasting starts high, but gets turned down for the remainder of the cooking time. Check out the best tips below!

Temperature

Temperature tips!

The chicken needs to have an internal temperature of  74°C/165°F. I highly recommend the use of a temperature probe to check this!

Internal temp

After resting, you can carve the chicken, you will see how juicy the chicken is, resting really helps this!

Carving

Carving tips!

What roast dinner would be complete without a drizzle of gravy over the top? Make it using all the juices in the roasting tray!

Gravy

You can get all the tips and tricks you need for the perfect roasted chicken by following the link below!

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