Perfect Roast Chicken

Name: Perfect Roast Chicken
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 6 pc roasting chicken; ½ tsp kosher salt; ½ tsp black pepper; 1 pc fresh thyme; 1 pc lemon; 1 pc garlic; 2 tbsp butter; 1 pc Spanish onion; 250 ml chicken stock; 2 tbsp plain flour

Roast chicken stuffed with lemon, thyme and garlic, served with pan gravy.

25 min 641 kcal/serving serves 4

641kcal70gprotein12gcarbs35gfat

Ina GartenView the original on barefootcontessa.com More from Ina Garten on Mello

🍗roasting chicken

🧂kosher salt

🧂black pepper

🌿fresh thyme

🍋lemon

🧄garlic

🧈butter

🧅Spanish onion

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About Ina Garten

American cookbook author and TV host known as the Barefoot Contessa

Ina Garten is an American cookbook author, television host, and former specialty food shop owner who built the Barefoot Contessa brand around confident, unfussy entertaining. She rose to prominence through her Barefoot Contessa cookbooks and long-running Food Network show, and remains one of the most trusted voices in American home cooking.

Garten's cooking favors classic American and European comfort food made approachable, with an emphasis on good ingredients over technique, plenty of butter, fresh herbs, and reliable, repeatable methods. She is known for straightforward roasts, braises, and baked goods such as Perfect Roast Chicken and Beatty's Chocolate Cake, alongside dishes borrowed from Italian and Jewish traditions like pasta e fagioli and rugelach, all adapted for confident weeknight or dinner party cooking rather than restaurant precision.

Eight recipes on Mello, imported from barefootcontessa.com, mostly American and Italian.