Grammy's Kitchen · Roast Chicken · My Best Roast Chicken
One of 43 roast chicken recipes we measured
from houseofnasheats.com
It ranks #1 of 43 for browning depth among the roast chicken recipes we compared. 5 cooks on houseofnasheats.com rate it 4.8★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 43.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 4% | 3% |
| salt | 0% | 0% |
| aromatics | 1% | 1% |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 2268 g | 4-6 pound whole chicken |
| 21 g | 3-4 teaspoons kosher salt (more if the chicken is on the larger side) |
| 2 g | 1 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper |
| 57 g | 1/4 cup salted butter (softened to room temperature) |
| 12 g | 4 garlic cloves (minced) |
| 2 g | 2 sprigs fresh rosemary (chopped) |
| Aromatics for stuffing the chicken like a quartered onion, roughly chopped celery, garlic cloves, fresh herbs like rosemary or thyme, or a halved lemon | |
| 1 lemon (sliced in half) | |
| 3 g | 1 head of garlic (sliced in half) |
Method: 6 steps, published by houseofnasheats.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Beautiful flavour. I added desert spoon of herbs de Provence to my butter and was beautiful. A lovely moist bird! Thank you” — a cook, 5.0★