Whole roasted chicken. This whole roasted chicken turns out terrifically flavorful and tender, and the broth left in the bottom is a perfect gravy in itself! You can do this for a leg of lamb, a roast beef, a roast pork loin. Not only was this easy to prepare and the flavour outstanding, this was the JUICIEST chicken I have ever eaten - anywhere!

Place the whole chicken into a medium sized baking pan. Rub the entire bird with the olive oil. In a small bowl combine the salt, pepper, oregano, basil, and paprika, then sprinkle evenly over chicken. You can cook Whole roasted chicken using 5 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Whole roasted chicken

You need 1 of whole chicken.
It's of Butter 🧈.
It's of Salt.
You need of Pepper.
It's of Paprika.

Season generously inside and out with salt and pepper. The roasted chicken will also leave behind the most amazing pan juices in the roasting pan. Then give the chicken one final schmear… And roast it in the oven for about an hour and fifteen minutes to an hour-and-a-half. You can stuff various items into the chicken for roasting and this will provide additional moisture and aromatics that will help to flavor the chicken from the inside.

Whole roasted chicken step by step

Rub the chicken with butter 🧈 and add seasonings to taste.
Cook at 375 degrees for an hour.

This is a foolproof method for how to roast a whole chicken, yielding immaculately crispy skin and incredibly juicy meat. Try it once, and you may never go back to buying prepared rotisserie chicken from the deli again—because honestly, it's almost as easy to make this incredible version at home. The secret to getting super-crisp skin when roasting a chicken is getting it as dry as. Remove and discard the plastic pop-up timer from chicken if there is one. The perfect roast chicken is one pan away with this staple family recipe that's sure to serve up a wonderfully-browned whole bird.