Slow Cooked Whole Chicken With Lemon Rosemary Garlic
From rosemaryblue 16 years ago
- 6-60 minutes to make
- Serves 6
CROCKPOT. Forget about it. Delicious slow cooked chicken that bursts with flavor! Wonderful with steamed rice and a simple salad. Or can be used in other dishes.
Ingredients
- 4-5 pound whole chicken shopping list
- 3 whole medium onions shopping list
- 1 whole lemon shopping list
- rosemary sprigs or dried rosemary shopping list
- 1 garlic clove, crushed shopping list
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled shopping list
- celery leaves or 1 rib of celery shopping list
- parsley sprigs shopping list
- black pepper shopping list
- 2 tablespoons olive oil shopping list
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter (will rub outside of chicken with 2 of these tablespoons) shopping list
- 4 whole carrots shopping list
- 1/2 cup chicken broth shopping list
- Paprika* (optional) shopping list
- toothpicks for closing cavity of chicken shopping list
- *NOTE: Can sprinkle with paprika before browning shopping list
How to make it
- Wash and dry whole chicken
- Pierce lemon all over with fork or ice pick
- Place lemon, whole onion, parsley sprigs, 2 whole garlic cloves into cavity of chicken
- Lightly rub skin of chicken with crushed garlic clove, and 2 tablespoons softened butter
- In skillet, melt 2 tablespoons butter, 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Carefully place whole chicken in butter/olive oil mixture, and brown all sides of chicken
- Cut the other 2 onions in half
- Place carrots, halved onions into bottom of crockpot
- Place browned chicken on top of carrots and onions
- Lay sprig of fresh rosemary on chicken OR sprinkle chicken with dried rosemary
- Add about 1/2 cup chicken broth to crockpot
- Cook chicken on low for about 10 hours.
- One hour before serving, remove rosemary sprigs.
- Drain off juices, place them in saucepan, reduce to about 1 cup.
- Check seasonings and correct
- Salt and pepper the chicken
- Pour the reduced juices over chicken and cook for another hour
- Serve with steamed rice
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This sounds delicious!!
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