Roasted Lemon Chicken

Roasted Lemon Chicken

This is one of those dishes that takes a long time to cook, but with only about a 5 minute prep time, you can put it in the oven and then get busy doing something else. Works great for busy weekends! But, it’s a nice dish that’s a great centerpiece to any meal. So, if you have 4-6 people over for dinner, it would also be ideal because while it’s in the oven, you can be doing other things, like last minute cleaning! Haha.

You need:
1. 1 whole chicken (about 5-6 lbs)
2. 2 lemons
3. 1 medium yellow onion
4. 1 tspn salt
5. 1 tspn black pepper
6. 2 tspn lemon pepper

You do:
1. Preheat oven to 400F.
2. Empty cavity of chicken. Rinse chicken inside and out, and pat dry.
3. Place chicken in baking dish.
4. Cut lemons into 8 pieces each—cut into 4 wedges, and then cut each wedge in half.
5. Squeeze lemon pieces so that juice runs over chicken.
6. Cut onion into wedges as well.
7. Stuff chicken with lemon and onion—any pieces that won’t fit, you can place around the chicken.
8. Mix salt, pepper and lemon pepper together in small ramekin.
9. Sprinkle seasoning over chicken. Rub the seasoning with your hands to get under the drumsticks and wings.
10. Cover with aluminum foil and cook at 400F for 75-90 min (this time varies based on the size of your chicken, so make sure it’s done all the way to the bone).

Nom! Nom!