Roasted chicken

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 24 hour dry brine, 1 teaspoon salt per pound, on wire rack uncovered in fridge, breasts up.
  2. Cook w breasts up, smear on 3-4 tbs room temp butter, get some under skin, truss it, put in baking dish w hunks of carrot, baby potatoes, pearl onions (blank to peel), stuff w lemons and thyme, cook at 425, bast w its juices after 45 minutes, get coldest part to 155*, let rest.
  3. 6 pound bird took 90 minutes