Ingredients
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 deg F/180 deg Celsius.
- Use a plump chicken, and remove any loose fat. Keep whole.
- Mix the lemon juice, honey and mustard in a small bowl, heat slightly in a microwave, then whisk to mix.
- Add the chopped rosemary to the basting sauce.
- *Use a high quality, tangy and grainy mustard.
- Put the chicken in an oven dish into which it will fit fairly snugly.
- Using a brush, brush the chicken all over, under the wings, along the sides, with the marinade. The leftover marinade goes into the cavity -- turn the chicken round to spread it.
- Now sprinkle chicken all over and in cavity with a seasoning salt of your choice. (I use a sea salt to which fine dried herbs have been added).
- Don't add any water or oil, as the chicken is just fine as it is, as long as it's not a thin, blue-tinged bird!
- Cover chicken lightly -- don't tuck in -- with foil, as the marinade burns easily. Put into oven.
- Take OFF the foil after 45 minutes, and let the chicken brown well. Don't let it burn.
- Depending on weight chicken is done in 1 1/4 - 1 1/2 hours.
- Serve with baby potatoes in the skin and vegetables of your choice, plus a mixed green salad.