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Christmas Golden Roast Chicken

🌙 Dinner🍲 Main course🍗 Roast🎄 Christmas
Golden-skinned chicken scented with lemon, garlic, and rosemary makes a festive centerpiece for the Christmas table, finished with bright cranberries and fresh herbs.
20 min prep1 h 40 min cookMedium6 servings

Ingredients
150 g (1 cup) fresh cranberries, for serving
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Method
1
Preheat the oven to 200°C (400°F).
2
Pat the chicken dry with paper towels.
3
Mix the softened butter with the chopped rosemary, salt, and pepper.
4
Rub the rosemary butter over the chicken skin.
5
Place the lemon halves and crushed garlic inside the chicken cavity.
6
Arrange the onion wedges in a roasting pan.
7
Set the chicken breast-side up on the onion wedges.
8
Drizzle the olive oil over the chicken.
9
Roast the chicken for 90 minutes.
10
Check that the thickest part of the thigh reaches 74°C (165°F) on a meat thermometer.
11
Continue roasting in 10-minute increments if needed.
12
Rest the chicken for 15 minutes before carving.
13
Arrange the cranberries and extra rosemary sprigs around the carved chicken for serving.

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