Oven Roasted Chicken With Roasted Garlic And French Bread
This recipe is fabulous - perfectly roasted whole chicken, with roasted garlic to squeeze right onto the chicken (if you prefer), and crusty french bread, with squeezed garlic. too-die-for! If you so choose, you can actually skip eating the roasted garlic (unless you are a true garlic-lover, and can't resist :-). simply cooking the chicken with the garlic in the pan adds incredible flavor to the chicken!! . i also sometimes throw in some quartered red potatoes to the pan, which creates amazing roasted garlic potatoes. If i do this, i always sprinkle the potatoes with salt, pepper, and rosemary, too, and sprinkle with olive oil, both at the start of the cooking time, and just before serving (toss well). makes for a fabulous complete meal!!
Steps
Preheat oven to 400.
Wash and dry chicken , and remove giblets.
Baste whole chicken with olive oil.
Mix salt and pepper to taste , and all other spices , in small bowl , and then rub over entire chicken.
Put leftover spice mixture , and 4 indiviudal garlic cloves , inside cavity of chicken.
Place chicken in large roasting pan.
Take apart remaining garlic bulbs and place garlic cloves all around chicken.
Pour chicken broth over all.
Cover with foil and bake for 1 hour , then remove cover , and bake for 35 to 40 mins , until chicken is browned.
Remove chicken from oven and let cool for a few minutes.
Carve chicken , while heating up french bread.
Serve chicken pieces and french bread , with roasted garlic cloves.
Squeeze roasted garlic onto slices of french bread and / or onto chicken pieces , as you eat it.
Ingredients
whole chicken, rosemary, thyme, sage, garlic, salt and pepper, olive oil, chicken broth, french bread