How to make juicy roast chicken?

Among the kitchen basics, we can list that it is very important to know how to make a juicy roast chicken. So if you want to learn how to cook, after rice, chicken is certainly crucial to your learning.

But we often end up making a mistake and causing it to become charred, or perhaps a little dry. Which isn't very attractive or tasty about chicken, right?

Therefore, we are going to bring you a recipe and some tips so that this doesn’t happen to your next dish!

Learn how to make juicy roast chicken

To learn how to make a juicy roast chicken, you will need the following ingredients:

• 1 whole chicken;
• 2 tablespoons of juice Sicilian lemon;
• 1 Sicilian lemon cut in half;
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme;
• ½ cup of butter;
• salt to taste;
• Black pepper;
• ½ tablespoon of lemon zest;
• ½ tablespoon of honey;
• carrots at will;
• ½ onion.

To start preparing your chicken, mix the butter with the thyme, lemon, salt and pepper, preparing a seasoned butter.

On your chicken, open a space between the skin and the meat, adding half of the seasoned butter to that area and spreading it around.

Also add the lemon cut in half and the onion, tie the chicken legs with string and coat the outside of the chicken with butter.

After that, place your chicken along with the whole but peeled carrots on a baking tray. Cover with aluminum foil and place in an oven heated to 220°C for at least 1 hour and a half.

When 1 and a half hours have passed, remove the aluminum foil and spread honey over the top, then return to the oven until the skin is golden brown, if your oven has a grill this is a great option to use.

And that's it, very easy, right? And you can apply the tip to other parts of the chicken too, adapting in the best ways.

How to make chicken wetter?

But if you still want more tips on how to make a juicy and delicious roast chicken, we also have all the tricks up our sleeves that you might need.

And the first tip we can give is to make a marinade, so that the chicken is seasoned and still juicy, as this will prevent drying out.

If you want to combine two tips into one, try using milk as a marinade sauce.

It is usually used on red meat, mainly, but if you let the chicken marinate for 15 minutes before putting it in the oven.

Even after you put the marinated chicken in the oven, save some of the marinade so you can baste your chicken as soon as it comes out of the oven again.

Another very good tip is to place the butter between the skin and the meat of the chicken, so that when it starts to melt in the oven, the butter penetrates the chicken and it becomes very tender.

By following these tips, you will be able to prepare a juicy and tasty chicken that will please all palates.