OVEN ROASTED CHICKEN – The Southern Woman Cooks

This oven-roasted hen is really easy and loaded with scrumptious taste! Add this to Sunday dinner!

❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE

We like to make this roasted hen on a Sunday and luxuriate in it over the week. This hen is ideal to make chicken salad, or simply take pleasure in a hen breast with a scrumptious meal, make hen soup, hen dumplings or any hen dishes you want. It’s versatile too, you possibly can change up the spices.

SWAPS

It is a versatile recipe; you possibly can change up the spices, and it can be used on a turkey. This recipe is also used on a turkey breast you could simply have to regulate the spices.

⭐TIP

You wish to guarantee the interior temperature reaches 165 levels. Additionally, you will wish to let the hen relaxation for about 20 minutes earlier than slicing or serving. This may hold the hen moist!

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Oven Roasted Hen

Judy Yeager

This oven roasted hen is really easy to make and tremendous versatile! You should use this hen in many alternative recipes and it is nice to make on Sunday for dinner.

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook dinner Time 1 hour hr 30 minutes minutes

Complete Time 1 hour hr 45 minutes minutes

Course Essential Course

Delicacies American

• 1 complete roasting hen
• 1 stick unsalted butter
• 1 tablespoon dried rosemary or about 3 sprigs of contemporary
• 1 tablespoon dried thyme or 3 tablespoons contemporary
• 2 teaspoons onion powder
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons pepper
• Melted butter for basting
• Water to cowl backside of roasting pan

• Wash your complete hen and reduce stick of butter into small pats with knife. Pull up the pores and skin on the entrance of the hen add 3 or 4 pats of butter below the pores and skin. Add butter in crevices by every leg and every wing. Add some butter within the neck space.

• Soften about 3 tablespoons butter and brush the outer aspect of the hen. Sprinkle rosemary, thyme, onion powder, salt and pepper all around the hen. You should use kind of of those spices as you want.

• Add sufficient water to cowl backside of roasting pan and bake uncovered basting the hen with melted butter at 30 and 60 minutes.

• Bake in a preheated 425 diploma oven for 90 minutes till inner temperature reaches 165 levels on a meat thermometer. Let relaxation about 20 minutes earlier than serving.

We make 2 every time by doubling this recipe. We love making hen salad and having hen to make use of in wraps or with meals. You possibly can add an entire onion within the cavity together with some celery items when you like. May additionally add greens within the pan with the hen equivalent to potatoes and carrots.

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