Recipe: Perfect Authentic Roast Chicken

Authentic Roast Chicken.

You can have Authentic Roast Chicken using 16 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Authentic Roast Chicken

1. Prepare of Chicken (whole chicken).
2. It's of Olive oil, as needed.
3. You need of Garlic.
4. Prepare of Salt and pepper.
5. You need of to 5 sprigs Rosemary.
6. You need of Garnish: potatoes, pumpkin, bell pepper slices, onions, etc..
7. You need of ■Brining.
8. It's of ○Garlic.
9. You need of each ○Salt and sugar and 4-5 sprigs of fresh parsley.
10. Prepare of ○Water.
11. Prepare of Chicken juice left on a baking tray (scrape up browned bits).
12. Prepare of - 200 ml Water.
13. It's of White wine.
14. Prepare of Lemon juice.
15. It's of to 2 tablespoons Honey.
16. It's of Salt and pepper.

Authentic Roast Chicken step by step

1. Preparation for brining: Wash chicken carefully inside and out. I buy chicken that is sold without giblets nor the neck..
2. In a plastic bag, put all ○ ingredients together with the chicken and seal the bag firmly. Leave it for half a day or overnight in a refrigerator..
3. Take out chicken from the bag. Pat the chicken dry with a paper towel. Rub in salt, pepper and cut garlic over entire chicken..
4. Place in the parsley, garlic, salt and pepper used for brining the interior. Skewer chicken legs or truss with cooking twine to close up your chicken..
5. Preheat oven to 180℃. Lightly grease baking tray with olive oil and place chicken and cut vegetables..
6. Season evenly with sliced garlic, rosemary, salt, pepper and olive oil..
7. Roast for 60-90 minutes in an oven at 180℃. Open oven a few times and baste with pan drippings (it's a trick to make the meat tender)..
8. When it's roasted, transfer to a serving dish..
9. Gravy sauce: Scrape up brown bits and juice left on the pan, put in a bowl and add water. Strain resulting sauce and add to a pan..
10. Heat the pan with sauce over low heat. Add flavor with white wine, honey, lemon, salt and pepper. If it tastes too strong, adjust using water..
11. Cut chicken and serve with gravy sauce..
12. Garnish chicken with potato, pumpkin, sweet potato, celery, carrot, zucchini and onion. Mushrooms are also delicious..