Roasted Chicken in Roasting Bag

This recipe yields a juicy and flavorful roasted chicken with minimal effort. Cooking the chicken in a roasting bag helps to seal in moisture, resulting in tender meat with crispy skin.

Ingredients:

• 1 whole chicken about 4-5 pounds
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 lemon, halved
• 4 cloves garlic, crushed
• 4 sprigs fresh rosemary
• 1 onion, quartered
• 1 roasting bag

Instructions:

Warm the oven up to 190C 375F

Take the chickens giblets out and dry it with paper towels

On the inside and outside, rub the chicken with olive oil, salt, and black pepper

For the chicken, squeeze the halves of the lemon over it and then put them inside along with the rosemary sprigs and crushed garlic

Also, put a quartered onion inside the hole

Put the chicken that has been seasoned inside the roasting bag and tie it up tight

To roast the chicken, put it in a pan with the breast side facing up

Cut a few small holes in the top of the bag so that the steam can escape

The chicken should be roasted in an oven that has already been heated for about an hour and a half, or until a meat thermometer reads 165F 75C inside

After taking the chicken out of the oven, let it rest for 10 minutes

Then, cut it up and serve