Roasted chicken
Ingredients
Instructions
- 24 hour dry brine, 1 teaspoon salt per pound, on wire rack uncovered in fridge, breasts up.
- 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.
- 6 pound bird took 90 minutes