50 Shades Of Garlic Roasted Chicken
We garlic lovers wanted to perfect recipe#463221 by setting the roast chicken on a bed of 20 heads of garlic. we were able to squeeze luscious garlic cloves onto slices of recipe #510892, plus we divided the leftover roasted garlic to freeze to make the wonderful cooking light creamy thyme sauce whenever we so desired. plus our 18-mo-old grand-daughter couldn't get enough of this moist and delicately seasoned chicken. we are still working on the cooking time, as the oversized chickens available in u.s. Markets need a lot more additional time; we added a tent of aluminum foil after the chicken's skin had browned enough. by all means, use an instant-read cooking thermometer. if you saved some roasted garlic from a prior chicken, you can work on the sauce while waiting for the chicken to finish roasting. we found that if loose garlic cloves are spread in the pan, they turn into charcoal briquettes; it isn't necessary to cover the entire base of the pan with garlic, but the chicken
Steps
Preheat oven to 375 degrees f.
Roasting bed:.
Cut off tops of heads of garlic.
Arrange in bottom of half size serving tray.
Spray roasting bed with olive oil flavored cooking spray.
Spread a small piece of fresh thyme on each head of garlic , then lay 2 branches of rosemary across center group of garlic heads.
Chicken:.
Combine onions , bell peppers , celery , parsley , fresh thyme sprigs and 5 garlic cloves.
Place in cavity of the chicken.
Place chicken , breast side up , on top of the roasting bed.
Sprinkle chicken with mix of pepper , salt and 1 / 2 teaspoon dried thyme.
Coat chicken with cooking spray.
Tie end of legs together with cooking twine and tuck wing.
Roast for 40 minutes.
Increase the oven temperature to 450 degrees f.
Bake an additional 20 minutes or until a thermometer registers 170 degrees.
Transfer chicken to a platter.
Remove garlic cloves from the roasting pan , squeeze them out of the skins and reserve 5 of them for the sauce.
Scatter the remain.
Ingredients
garlic, celery, carrot, potato, fresh thyme, fresh rosemary, olive oil flavored cooking spray, onion, green bell pepper, fresh parsley, fresh thyme sprigs, garlic cloves, chicken, fresh ground black pepper, salt, dried thyme, fresh thyme sprig, low sodium chicken broth, white wine, all-purpose flour, water