Oven Roasted Whole Chicken

whole chicken

4 potatoes

4 sweet potatoes

1 onion

1 head of garlic

rosemary, thyme, parsley, s, p

olive oil

1/2 lemon

spiedies chicken marinade and a lil lemon garlicious (both GF)

butter

Clean your chicken.

Let chicken marinade for an hour in spiedies.   Allow excess to drip off before stuffing with onion, a bundle of herbs, 1/2 a lemon, and several cloves of garlic(crush em with side of knife if you like)..I then put some garlic slices and butter beneath the skin..then you may tie that bad boy up.  Start and end on the drumsticks.

I used a 9x15 pyrex dish with 2.5in sides. Created a bed of potatoes and sweet potatoes(peel and chopped) and plopped the bird on top.  Sprinkle finely chopped garlic around, throw a few sprigs of thyme and rosemary around the potatoes surrounnding the beast.  A few dried cranberries near the sweet potatoes.  Lightly drizzle olive oil over it all.

I started the dish off in the oven at 425 for 15min then turned it down to 325 for 1hr-1hr 10mins. Let sit 15-20min before serving.