my first roast chicken

Last night I made my first whole roast chicken. I was rather proud of myself and the results. First I stuffed the chicken with a mixture of onion, rosemary, salt and pepper. Then I rubbed the outside of the chicken with a mixture of olive oil, rosemary, herb salt and pepper. There were some leftover onion from the stuffing so I used it to pad the chicken in the pan.

I first baked it on its breast at 200°C for 20 minutes then I lowered the heat to 150°C and baked it for about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Then I flipped the chicken back on it’s back to brown the breast at 250°C. We have a meat thermometer but there was no indication of chicken on it so we went with 80°C internal temp in the thickest part of the breast. Our chicken weighed about 1.2 kg.

About 1 hour into the roasting of the chicken, I put in some wedges of carrots and then in the last 15 minutes or so I put in some wedges of zucchini.

Fredrik made an awesome garlic-y potato salad with leek and chopped olives.

I think I will definitely roast another chicken.