Crispy chicken on salt baked whole in the oven

6 servings
2 hours

How to bake crispy chicken on salt in the oven whole? Prepare the necessary ingredients. Take fresh chicken, not flabby, the skin should fit tightly around the meat. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.

Wash the chicken and dry with paper towels. If there are leftover feathers on the chicken, remove them.

In a bowl, combine the liquid honey and vegetable oil and mix well until smooth. If the honey is saccharized, melt it in the microwave or steam beforehand.

Rinse the lemon thoroughly, dry. All over the lemon, make deep cuts with a knife so that the juice from it evaporates better while baking the chicken.

Put a whole lemon into the prepared carcass. If desired, you can salt and pepper the chicken inside before adding lemon.

On a baking sheet or in a baking dish, pour out the salt and flatten.

Lay the back down on the salt of the chicken so that the juice flows out of it more slowly and the bird retains its juiciness. You can also tie the bird's legs with a culinary thread. Coat the chicken with the honey-and-oil mixture on top. It is honey that will form a crispy ruddy crust on the chicken.

To prevent the tips of the wings and legs from burning, you can wrap them in pieces of foil. Put the chicken in the oven preheated to 180 ° C and bake for about 1. 5 hours until a ruddy golden crust appears. Periodically lubricate the bird with the remains of the honey mixture from the bowl, because the juice that will flow out of the bird itself will be absorbed into the salt.

To check the readiness of the bird, pierce the meat with a knife: if the knife enters easily and light juice flows, then it is ready if the juice is pink or red - you need to continue cooking. Enjoy your meal!