Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, lemon roast chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have lemon roast chicken using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon Roast Chicken:

1. Get whole chicken
2. Take lemons
3. Take unsalted butter
4. Prepare salt
5. Prepare black pepper
6. Take garlic
7. Prepare smoked paprika

Steps to make Lemon Roast Chicken:

1. Heat oven to 240 degrees C . - Zest and juice 1 lemon. Heat the lemon juice and the butter together in a small saucepan and set aside.
2. Sprinkle the chicken cavity with 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon of the black pepper
3. Gently slide two fingers under the skin of the breast and rub half of the zest , 1/4 teaspoon of the blackpepper and the 1 tsp paprika onto the whole chicken.
4. Take a full lemon and place it and the garlic in the cavity.
5. Tie the legs together with butcher's twine and season the outside of the bird with the remaining 1 teaspoon salt and 1/4 tsp of the black pepper
6. Place on a rack in a small roasting pan, and roast for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 180 degrees C.
7. Continue to roast, basting with a brush every 15 minutes with the prepared lemon butter for about 1 hour.
8. Let the chicken rest at least 15 minutes to allow the juice to settle before serving. - You can serve it with steamed vegetables or baked potatoes . - Enjoy your meal.

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