Oven Roasted Lemon Chicken With Seasoned Sauce

A juicy golden chicken with luscious sauce, requiring a minimum of effort. The lemon flavor is not overpowering, but definitely present. Pairs perfectly with mashed potatoes. This recipe comes from a dutch language cookbook i recently purchased entitled mediterraans: culinair genieten op z'n best" which translates to mediterranean: culinary enjoyment at its best. All the recipes are anonymous so i can't give credit to it's author."

Steps

Pre-heat oven to 180c.

Place one of the garlic head halves and half of the lemon slices in a large heat-proof baking dish.

Place the cardamom pods , cumin seeds , and cloves in a mortar and pestle and lightly crush.

Scatter these in the baking dish.

Gently loosen the skin of the chicken and place lemon slices over the breasts.

Put the remaining lemon slices and the other garlic half inside the chicken.

Place the chicken breast side down in the baking dish.

Rub or brush the olive oil over the chicken and salt and pepper as desired.

In a small saucepan on the stove top , heat the water to boiling and dissolve the bouillon cube in it.

Take 2 tbs of this broth and add to the baking dish.

Place the dish in the oven and bake for 1 hour.

Remove the dish from the oven , turn the chicken over , baste with pan juices , and return to oven , baking one hour more until the chicken is done.

Remove the chicken to a cutting board , and pour any pan juices through a strainer into the sauc.

Ingredients

garlic, lemons, cardamom pods, cumin seed, whole cloves, whole chickens, olive oil, water, chicken bouillon cube, flour, salt and pepper