Garlic Lemon Roasted Chicken

Daniel and I tend to have our 'Sunday Dinner' on Saturday. I have a lot more cooking time on Saturday, when church gets out at four, your dinner options are limited. The 'fancy' meal I make on Saturday, usually gets transformed into an easy meal on Sunday. It allows me to actually rest on the day of rest, instead of slaving over a feast. This past Saturday, Daniel had some friends coming over, so I opted to make the whole chicken that has been sitting in my freezer. I prepared it as follows.

Ingredients:
1 whole chicken
1 lemon
4 cloves garlic
1 1/2 tsp of lemon pepper
1/4 cup oil

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees, see I'm getting better at remembering that step! Wash your chicken and pat it dry. Put the chicken off to the side and cut the lemon in half. Squeeze about 1 TBS of juice  from the lemon into a bowl. Take the remainder of the lemon, plus 2 cloves of garlic and stuff them into the chicken cavity.

Filled up cavity.

Place the chicken into a roasting pan (okay..mine was a cake pan, either should work), and tie it's little feet together. I used from beading string from my craft stuff, though most any type of string would work. Now, prepare the...rub. Dice the remaining 2 cloves of garlic, and add them, the lemon pepper, and the oil into the squeezed lemon juice. Stir until everything is evenly distributed.

Now we get a little messy. Use your hands to rub the lemon-garlic oil all over the chicken. Both the top and the bottom and both under and on top of the skin.

I broke the skin, try not to do that.

Roast the chicken in your pre-heated oven for 20 min per pound, or until the juices run clear. I basted mine about every 30 min, you can skip basting if you are busy.

Completed Chicken.

It would look better if I hadn't broke the skin...oh well. It was still tasty. I served it with whole grain fettuccine in butternut squash Alfredo(I don't currently have a recipe for that, but I could develop one), steamed broccoli, and sliced fruit. It made for a nice 'Sunday Dinner'. This chicken also makes a pretty good chicken salad, if you have leftovers.