Name: Easy roast chicken
Total time: 4200 s
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 chicken; 75 gram unsalted butter; 2 tablespoon garlic powder; 2 tablespoon herbes de Provence; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon black pepper; 4 sprig thyme; 1/2 lemon

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 210°C/190°C fan/gas mark 6.

Step 2

Pick the leaves from three of the thyme sprigs (4 sprigs) and mix with the butter (75 g) and half the garlic powder (10 g) , herbes de Provence seasoning (4 g) , salt (3 g) and black pepper (1 g) .

Step 3

Gently ease the skin away from the flesh of the chicken (1) at the neck, and carefully rub the butter mixture underneath between the skin and flesh, reserving a little butter for the outside. Rub the remaining butter all over the skin.

Step 4

Stuff half a lemon (1/2) and the remaining thyme sprig inside the bird, then scatter the remaining garlic powder (10 g) herbes de Provence seasoning (4 g) , salt (3 g) and black pepper (1 g) .

Step 5

Cook for around 50-60 minutes, until the chicken is cooked through and the juices run clear.

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