Poulet rôti (Roast chicken)
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The traditional French method of roasting a chicken.
Ingredients
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- 1 x 1.5kg whole chicken
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 30g softened butter
- A few cloves of garlic, peeled
- 2 x further ¼ teaspoons salt
For basting
Mise en place
- Preheat the oven to 220° C (425° F - gas 7), [fan oven 200° C & reduce cooking time by 10 mins per hour].
Method
- Sprinkle the inside of the chicken with ¼ teaspoons salt.
- Smear the inside with half of the butter.
- Add the garlic cloves to the cavity.
- Place the chicken, breast side up on a rack in a roasting tin.
- Rub it with the remaining half of the butter.
- Put into the middle of the preheated oven and roast for 5 minutes.
- Turn the chicken onto one of the breasts, baste with some of the butter and oil and roast for a further 5 minutes.
- Repeat the process, turning it onto the other breast.
- After 5 minutes, leaving the chicken on its side, reduce the heat to 180° C (350° F - gas 4), [fan oven 160° C & reduce cooking time by 10 mins per hour].
- Baste every 10 minutes.
- Half-way through the estimated roasting time, salt the chicken with ¼ teaspoons salt and turn it onto the other breast.
- Continue basting.
- 15 minutes before the end, salt again and turn so that it is breast up.
- Continue basting.
- When cooked, wrap in foil and allow to rest for 30 minutes before carving.
Serving suggestions
Serve with roast potatoes and vegetables, or eat when cold with salad.
Recipe source
- Lightly adapted from a recipe in Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Simone Beck, Louisette Bertholle & Julia Child.
See also
- A comprehensive guide to roast meat cooking times - give the time you want to carve your roast and we'll give you a timed step by step roasting guide
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