Roast Chicken with Lemon Tarragon Butter
From wynnebaer 14 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 4
This is a simple but elegant way to prepare chicken. From Gourmet Magazine 2003
Ingredients
- 1/2 stick butter, softened shopping list
- 1 tsp. finely grated lemon zest shopping list
- 1/2 tsp. dried tarragon, crushed shopping list
- 1/2 tsp. salt shopping list
- 1/2 tsp. pepper shopping list
- 3-4 lb. chicken parts shopping list
- salt and pepper to taste shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 500
- In mixing bowl, combine butter, lemon zest, tarragon. and salt and pepper until blended
- Loosen skin on chicken by working your fingers between skin and meat, keeping skin attached on one side
- Rub butter under skin of each piece of chicken
- Put skin back intact
- Rub remaining butter over skin
- Season with salt and pepper
- Bake in roasting pan for 30 minutes
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Love lemon, butter and tarragon on chicken and fish! Great post and high 5 to you!
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