Lemon roast chicken

Frozen chicken was on sales last week so decided to make roast whole chicken. It's a small chicken about 500g.

Recipe:

• 1 small chicken
• 3 lemons
• 3 tsp salt
• Black pepper
• 1 tsp dry rosemary 
• Honey to glaze with 
• 2 Tbsp olive oli
• 1 carrot
• 1 yellow onion 

Steps:

1. Wash and dry the chicken then rub chicken with 2 tsp of salt around the surface of the chicken. 

2. Place the chicken into a ziplock bag and add juice of 2 lemons.

3. Put in fridge to marinade for at least 3 hours or overnight.

4. Preheat oven @ 180c (fan mode).

5. Cut up carrot and onion, coat with 1 tbsp of olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Place on the side of the roasting pan.

6. Remove chicken from bag and pat dry with paper towels.

7. Rub olive oil all over the chicken skin.

8. Sprinkle salt and pepper on and inside the chicken. Sprinkle rosemary inside the chicken.

9. Place 1 lemon (cut into wedges) inside cavity of the chicken

10. Roast for 20mins and lower the heat to 150c and roast for another 40mins

11. The last 10mins glaze chicken with honey

12. Remove chicken from oven and let it rest for 15mins 

Note: Keep the drippings from the roasting pan as gravy

I find that roasting a whole chicken takes up too much time. Likely I will cut the chicken and roast it flat the next time. Also I will be more generous with my glaze. 

We didn't finish the chicken for dinner as I decided to keep the chicken breast meat for our breakfast the next morning. So we had roast chicken sandwich the next day :)