Easiest Way to Make Gordon Ramsay Lemon Roast Chicken

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, lemon roast chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lemon roast chicken using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon Roast Chicken:

1. Get 1 whole chicken
2. Make ready 2 lemons
3. Get 1/2 cup unsalted butter
4. Make ready 2 tsp salt
5. Prepare 1 tsp black pepper
6. Get 4 cloves garlic
7. Prepare 1 tsp smoked paprika

Instructions to make Lemon Roast Chicken:

1. Heat oven to 240 degrees C . - Zest and juice 1 lemon. Heat the lemon juice and the butter together in a small saucepan and set aside.
2. Sprinkle the chicken cavity with 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon of the black pepper
3. Gently slide two fingers under the skin of the breast and rub half of the zest , 1/4 teaspoon of the blackpepper and the 1 tsp paprika onto the whole chicken.
4. Take a full lemon and place it and the garlic in the cavity.
5. Tie the legs together with butcher's twine and season the outside of the bird with the remaining 1 teaspoon salt and 1/4 tsp of the black pepper
6. Place on a rack in a small roasting pan, and roast for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 180 degrees C.
7. Continue to roast, basting with a brush every 15 minutes with the prepared lemon butter for about 1 hour.
8. Let the chicken rest at least 15 minutes to allow the juice to settle before serving. - You can serve it with steamed vegetables or baked potatoes . - Enjoy your meal.

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