Roast Chicken

This is a recipe for incredibly tasty and crisp roast chicken - and it's very easy and fast. Total preparation time is just an hour. It's the covering of the chicken pieces with butter that makes this chicken so incredibly crispy and tasty.

Instead of roasting the chicken in the oven, you can also barbecue it - but be careful that the dripping butter doesn't start flames. Extinguish any flames on the charcoal immediately (best with beer).

Please buy decent meat - a cheap supermarket chicken tastes terrible and is also incredibly cruel to the chicken. Get something free-range, it is well worth the money as it tastes so much better!

based on 531 reviews

Ingredients for 4

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Ingredients
1	whole	chicken	(1000 grams)
100	grams	butter
1	teaspoon	salt	(6 grams)
1 1/4	teaspoon	hot chili paste	(6 grams)
2	cloves	fresh garlic (medium size, 3g each)	(6 grams)
1/8	teaspoon	ground black pepper	(0.4 grams)

Salt content: 0.5% (by weight, not counting salt in other ingredients)

Method

Pre-heat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius / 400 Fahrenheit / Gas Mark 6.

See step-by-step instructions below.

Best with roast vegetables and a salad.

Step-by-Step Instructions

	Take out the fatty bits from inside the chicken.
	Cut off the "pope's nose".
	Cut chicken in half along the back first. You need a decent knife for this.
	Then cut in half along the breast from the inside. If you have a good aim and a cleaver, use that. If you have a bad aim, don't, as you will end up with lots of bone splinters.
	Our two chicken halves.
	Cut off the wing.
	then cut off the leg - try to cut through the middle of the joint.
	Take off the bottom bit of the leg - you probably aren't too keen on eating that bit anyway.
	Now cut off the remainder of the wing with a bit of breast.
	Then cut off the breast.
	Cut the rest in half - then repeat this with the other half of the chicken.
	And that's that - 12 lovely chicken bits.
	Put your butter into a dish and press the garlic onto the butter.
	Add the hot chilli paste. If you butter is cold from the fridge, you can put the dish into the oven for a minute and then proceed.
	Salt and pepper the chicken to taste. (But don't taste the raw chicken :-)
	mix the butter and the spices until it is creamy and slightly liquid.
	Put some of the butter mixture on each chicken piece - distribute evenly.
	Now rub it into the chicken pieces with your hands. Make sure all sides are well covered.
	Time to put our tray with the chicken pieces into the oven for 45 to 50 minutes.
	The crispiest, tastiest chicken!
	You can also barbecue your chicken pieces - I can't decide which method is the tastier one...

10	thanx for giving such a nice detail of rosting chicken...really nice
10	first time ever roasting chicken and your simple step-by-step instructions (with pictures) removed any fear of taking the first step to do this. Thank you! Keep the simplicity and humor! Cheers!
10	absolutely nice...........damn nice n tasty sllrpppp.......
10	thanks for this
10	OMG. I just made it and it is so delicious!
10	superchicken flies!!!
10	Loved the chopping section, nice one.
10	wow! a very well presented recipe. Very tasty too. Are you sure you are not a teacher? You'll be very good at it :)
10	Wonderful explamation pictures. Thank you
10	Wonderful and simple instructions---with humor!
10	Wonderful explamation pictures. Thank you
10	thank you
10	what a marvelous recipe and love the website keep up the good work
10	yummy
10	this is so good
10	very nice.......
10	this is so wonderful
10	wow i really must try. looks so yummylicious!!!
10	Its great to see the kids reaction to this mouth watering chicken, thank you sir!
10	nothing is tasty than it.
10	I love it.
10	its very easy i will make today.cooked chicken is looking like very beautiful and tasty.
10	it seems tasty
9	wow my small one liked very much .enjoyed srilankan
10	Ive never thought of cutting the chicken up before roasting, brilliant, very very tasty
10	Beautiful explaination with pictures...
10	Its awesome .... Loved it.
10	i think it is delicious
10	yummmmmmy foood
8	making it as we speak...
10	i think it is great...
10	very tasty
10	you are amazing
9	Gr8 its delicious, i'll try this.....
10	Tried it & my chicken was wonderful. Thank you.
10	wazzup
10	Very nice post, good luck! -)
10	nice and easy delicious recipe....easy to follow instructions and I love the pictures of each stage. brilliant.
10	great instrutions will certainly give it a try... bravo!
10	great will try
9	very tasty both ways
10	GREAT INSTRUCTIONS! Will certainly give it a try.
10	The bits cut off wings ect boil up and make chicken stock put in feezer until needed.
8	will try this for luch
10	Simply unbelievable! could have known this reciepe in my 37 years of life..
10	superb, can't wait to try this
10	Thanks for the photos. Looks good and trying it tonight
10	wow 8 s very delicious
10	Great recipe, I added a spoon of chutney and loads of fresh tyme sprigs was awesome!
9	salted butter and salt... fatty skin left on... proper organic/free range chicken with flavour... reminds me of when chicken tasted good back in the 80's when I was fitter then than now lol