Garlic Rosemary Roasted Chicken On The Big Easy Food

ROASTED GARLIC ROSEMARY CHICKEN

Steps:

• Cut the top 1/4 off of the garlic heads so that the tops of the cloves are exposed. Place them on a baking sheet and drizzle them well with olive oil.
• Preheat oven to 350°, cook garlic for about 40 minutes or until you see that the garlic cloves have browned, and the head itself is soft. Remove and let cool for handling.
• Wash chicken and place in baking pan breast up.
• With the handle of a wooden spoon, or anything that will slide without tearing the skin, separate the skin from the meat starting at the lower breast, and taking your time until you have loosened all the skin that you can reach.
• Make a small cut in the skin on top of the drumsticks, and insert the spoon into the cut, loosening all the skin on the legs and thighs.
• Gently squeeze all the garlic heads into a blender, the cloves will be soft and will slide out of the shell easily.
• Add the juice from half the lemon, the rosemary, and black pepper.
• Turn the blender on low and after mixture is working, slowly drizzle the olive oil into the mixture. Stop when mixture is mixed.
• Using either your fingers, a pastry bag, or however you can do it, (I just use my fingers and a spoon) insert about half of the mixture under the chicken skin and then gently press down on it to spread it around evenly under the skin.
• Place onion and lemon inside the chicken, tie legs together, wipe the outside lightly with olive oil and sprinkle with Emeril's essence to taste.
• Bake in preheated oven at 350° for about 50 minutes or until almost done and the outside is browning nicely.
• Remove chicken and spread the remaining mixture over the chicken to cover.
• Return to oven and cook until the surface is browned and the chicken is tender.

GARLIC ROSEMARY ROASTED CHICKEN ON THE BIG EASY

Steps:

• Rinse the bird and pat dry.
• Mix remaining ingredients. Note: You may want to add more dill or rosemary. Taste the mixture and add more as you need.
• Slather mixture all over and inside the bird. You can refrigerate for up to 12 hours before cooking. I've found that marinating isn't necessary.
• Place into a heated Big Easy (or onto a grill) and cook until meat in the thighs hits 185 F and the breasts hit 160 F.
• Let rest 30 minutes before carving (if you can resist it that long!).

EASY GARLIC AND ROSEMARY CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Cover the chicken breasts with garlic, then sprinkle with rosemary, lemon juice, and salt and pepper to taste. Place in a 9x13 inch baking dish and bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes or until done and juices run clear (baking time will depend on the thickness of your chicken breasts).

GARLIC ROSEMARY ROASTED CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450ºF.
• Remove and discard giblets and neck from chicken.
• Rinse chicken under cold water; pat dry.
• Trim excess fat.
• Starting at neck cavity, loosen skin from breast and drumsticks by inserting fingers and gently pushing fingers between skin and meat.
• Place rosemary and crushed garlic beneath skin of breast and drumsticks.
• Lift wing tips up and over back; tuck under chicken.
• Place chicken, breast side up, on a broiler pan.
• Cut a thin slice from end of each onion.
• Remove white papery skins from garlic heads (do not peel or separate cloves).
• Cut tops off garlic heads, leaving root end intact.
• Insert meat thermometer into meaty part of thigh, making sure not to touch bone.
• Bake at 450ºF for 30 minutes.
• Brush onions and garlic heads with olive oil.
• Arrange onions and garlic heads around chicken.
• Reduce oven temperature to 350ºF, bake an additional 1 hour 15 minutes or until meat thermometer registers 180ºF.
• Cover chicken loosely with foil; let stand 10 minutes.
• Discard skin from chicken.
• Squeeze roasted heads of garlic to extract pulp; serve as a spread on French bread, if desired.

ROSEMARY-GARLIC ROASTED CHICKEN AND GNOCCHI

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 450 degrees. Pat the chicken dry, then transfer to a sheet pan and season all over with 1½ teaspoons salt and a few grinds of pepper. In a liquid measuring cup or small bowl, combine the olive oil, garlic and rosemary with a fork. Season generously with salt and pepper.
• Add the oil mixture and the gnocchi to the chicken. Toss with your hands to coat, massaging the garlic and rosemary into the chicken and gnocchi. Arrange the gnocchi in an even layer, and place the chicken skin side up on top of the gnocchi. Roast until the chicken is cooked through and golden brown, 35 to 40 minutes.
• Transfer the chicken to plates and finely grate the zest of half the lemon over the chicken. Squeeze the juice of half the lemon onto the gnocchi (about 1½ tablespoons), then use a spoon to scrape up the browned bits on the sheet pan and toss the gnocchi in the lemon juice and pan drippings. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Cut the remaining lemon into wedges. Eat the chicken with the gnocchi and a lemon wedge for squeezing over.

CROCK POT ROASTED CHICKEN WITH ROSEMARY AND GARLIC

Steps:

• Clean and dry the chicken.
• Starting at the neck cavity, carefully loosen skin from the breast with you fingers.
• Insert 2-3 garlic pieces and 2 springs of rosemary under the breast skin at the edge of the wings.
• Continue pulling skin and insert 2 rosemary sprigs and 2 garlic pieces under drumstick skin.
• Make a small slit in skin on each wing.
• Insert a garlic piece and a rosemary sprig into each.
• Insert 2 garlic pieces and 2 rosemary sprigs in body cavity, then tie the legs together Place the chicken, breast down in a large slow cooker.
• Cover and cook on low 6-7 hours or until juices are clear when thick part of chicken is pierced with a knife. Remove chicken from slow cooker and discard garlic and rosemary.
• Cut chicken and serve.

ROASTED GARLIC CHICKEN WITH ROSEMARY

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Chop 2 cloves garlic from 1 head, reserve Cut off top third of all 3 garlic heads and discard.
• Grate 2 tsp zest from lemon; cut lemon in half.
• Combine chopped garlic& zest with 1 tbsp butter, chopped rosemary, 1/4 tsp salt& 1/4 tsp pepper.
• Separate chicken skin from breast; spread butter mixture over breast meat, place lemon halves, 1 garlic head and rosemary sprigs in cavity.
• Spread remaining butter over skin; sprinkle with 1/4 tsp salt& 1/4 tsp pepper.
• Place chicken on rack in roasting pan; add remaining garlic heads to roasting pan; roast for about 2 hrs or until juices run clear when pierced with fork; transfer to serving platter; let stand 10 minutes before carving Meanwhile, place broth in bowl; stir in flour& remaining salt& pepper; reserve Place roasting pan over two burners on high; add wine, cook stirring constantly about 1 minute; add broth mixture;cook stirring constantly until thickened;2-3 minutes.
• Remove from heat;strain if necessary; serve chicken with gravy.
• Serve roasted garlic cloves from heads with chicken.

ROSEMARY & GARLIC ROASTED CHICKEN WINGS

Steps:

• Light your oven or grill and get it to a very high temperature 500-600 Degrees.
• Chop your Garlic and Rosemary into a very fine dice. Add to a bowl with the lemon zest, chili flakes, a heavy pinch of salt, 10 big grinds of black pepper, oil to moisten the whole ensemble.
• Rinse and pat dry the chicken wings and add to the rosemary mixture. Toss and massage the chicken wings in the mix making sure to coat each and every bit of every wing with every ounce of rub. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes to an hour (longer is better).
• Once your oven or grill is up to heat lay the wings across and baking sheet lined with aluminum foil and place in the oven
• In the oven they tend to smoke a lot so be prepared.
• Cook the wings for roughly 10-12 minutes or until golden brown and crunchy, turning once or twice to crisp each side.
• Enjoy!