Chicken with lemon in the oven whole

6 servings
2 hours

How to bake chicken with lemon? First, prepare the right ingredients. We will deal with the filling. Wash the lemon, dry it. Peel onions from husks, wash and dry with napkins.

Cut half the lemon and onion into small pieces. To prevent the eyes from cutting onions from watering, wet the knife with cold water. It will be our filling.

Prepare the ingredients to make the aromatic oil. Rub the lemon zest over a coarse or medium grater. Wash and dry the greens. Peel the garlic from the husks. Butter must be softened.

Squeeze the juice out of the lemon. Run the garlic through the press. Finely chop the washed greens. Combine the soft butter with the juice and lemon zest, chopped greens and dry spices. Fold all the ingredients into a bowl.

Mix the mass until smooth.

Peel, wash, dry, grate the chicken with salt and pepper inside and out. Transfer it to a prepared baking dish with your back down.

Carefully separate the skin of the chicken on the breast from the meat and stuff with most of the fragrant oil. Carefully distribute the oil inside, trying not to tear the skin. Brush the breast with the remaining oil on top.

Now stuff the inside of the chicken with slices of lemon and chopped onions.

Tie the chicken legs together with a twine. Place the tin in the oven preheated to 180 ° C for about 1 hour. Bake until golden crust appears. It may take a little longer, depending on the oven. I baked in top + bottom + convection mode. Periodically water the chicken with juice from the bottom of the tin.