Description
Deliciously marinated whole chicken for a perfect roast.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 whole chicken, about 5 pounds
- 1/3 cup olive oil, good quality
- 1 tsp grated lemon zest (optional but recommended)
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 1 T Greek seasoning
- Salt and fresh ground pepper to taste
Instructions
- Zest the skin of the lemon and then squeeze the juice.
- Mix marinade ingredients in a measuring cup.
- Put the chicken in a large Ziploc bag, pour the marinade over, then zip the bag shut and mix well until the chicken is well coated. Put in fridge and let chicken marinate all day.
- After work, preheat oven to 450F/220C.
- Drain marinade off and put the chicken in a glass or heavy metal roasting pan, breast side down.
- Roast about 25 minutes, then turn breast side up and baste with pan juices.
- Lower heat to 350 and roast about another 35-45 minutes, or until the top is browned and an Instant-Read Meat Thermometer reads about 170.
- Let the chicken rest for 10 minutes before carving.
Notes
- If you don’t have a lemon zester, any type of microplane grater or fine cheese grater will work.
- It takes about an hour and 15 minutes for a 5-pound chicken to cook.
- Prep Time: 8 hours
- Cook Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
- Category: Main Dish
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 breast or thigh
- Calories: 400
- Sugar: 0g
- Sodium: 150mg
- Fat: 28g
- Saturated Fat: 5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 20g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 2g
- Fiber: 0g
- Protein: 35g
- Cholesterol: 110mg