How to Bake a Chicken - CopyKat.com

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Sep. 22, 2011

You can make a baked chicken without using a recipe, watch how I bake a chicken using a lemon compound butter.

Ingredients

Whole chicken 1 Medium , cleaned and washed
Lemon 2 Medium
Butter 1/4 Cup (4 tbs)
Poultry seasoning 1 Tablespoon

Directions

GETTING READY

1. Preheat the oven to 375F.

2. Zest a lemon and squeezed half of the lemon.

3. Cut one lemon in half and set aside.

MAKING

4. In a small bowl, mix together lemon juice, lemon rind, poultry seasoning and butter.

5. Using clean hands loosen chicken skin from flesh by inserting your fingers between skin and flesh, try to do this all over the chicken.

6. Place the chicken on a baking dish.

7. Put the lemon butter between the chicken flesh and skin and rub it on breast thigh and back part.

8. Rub the remaining butter over the chicken skin.

9. Place two halves of lemon inside the chicken cavity.

10. Bake in the oven for about an hour or until juices comes out clean when you insert knife tip in chicken thigh.

11. Remove from oven and allow to rest for 10 minutes.

SERVING

12. Cut and serve as desired.

Recipe Summary

Difficulty Level: Easy
Cook Time: 60 Minutes
Ready In: 60 Minutes
Servings: 12

Nutrition Facts

Serving size

Calories 308Calories from Fat 204

 % Daily Value*

Total Fat 23 g35.4%

Saturated Fat 7 g35%

Trans Fat 0 g

Cholesterol

Sodium 88 mg3.67%

Total Carbohydrates 2 g0.7%

Dietary Fiber %

Sugars

Protein 24 g48%

Vitamin A % Vitamin C %

Calcium % Iron %

*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet