Chicken With 40 Cloves Of Garlic And Creamy Thyme Sauce

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From cooking light. The recipe calls for 1 cup frozen seasoning blend, which i am sure is a great convenience if you have it, but i chose to enter it with the components (onion, bell pepper, celery and parsley), as i felt more people would have that readily available. I buy peeled garlic cloves at the market, which is an enormous time-saver.

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Steps

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Preheat oven to 375 deg f.

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Combine onions , bell peppers , celery , parsley , 1 / 2 tsp thyme , and 5 garlic cloves and place in the cavity of the chicken.

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Place chicken , breast side up , on a rack in a roasting pan.

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Sprinkle chicken with pepper , salt and remaining 1 / 2 tsp thyme and coat with cooking spray.

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Surround with the remaining garlic cloves.

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Tie ends of legs together with twine and tuck wing.

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Roast for 40 minutes.

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Increase the oven temperature to 450 deg and bake an additional 20 minutes or until a thermometer registers 170 deg.

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Transfer chicken to a platter.

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Remove the garlic cloves from the roasting pan and reserve five of them.

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Scatter the remainder around the chicken , cover the platter with foil and allow the chicken to rest.

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Prepare sauce: place the reserved cloves , broth , white wine and salt in a medium saucepan.

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Bring to a boil , cover , reduce heat and simmer 10 minutes.

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While the broth is simmering , combine flour and 3 tbl water in a small bowl ,.

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Ingredients

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onion, bell pepper, celery, fresh parsley, dried thyme, garlic cloves, chicken, fresh ground black pepper, salt, olive oil flavored cooking spray, fresh thyme sprig, low sodium chicken broth, white wine, fresh thyme, all-purpose flour, water