Slow Roasted Chicken With All The Garlic Food

SLOW-ROASTED GARLIC CHICKEN

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 375 degrees F and arrange a rack in the middle.
• Mix together salt and pepper in a small bowl and set aside. Pat chicken dry and rub all over with 1 of the garlic heads. Rub all over (under skin too) with oil and season with salt and pepper. Place 1 garlic head and 1 lemon half in the chicken cavity.
• Arrange remaining garlic, lemon, and onion on the bottom of a 3 to 4-quart baking dish to create a bed. Place chicken on top, add broth to baking dish, and cover tightly with foil. Roast until chicken reaches 135 to 140 degrees F on an instant-read thermometer, about 1 hour.
• Remove foil, brush chicken with pan juices, and increase oven temperature to 450 degrees F. Roast, basting occasionally, until temperature of chicken on inner thigh is 165 degrees F, skin is golden brown, and juices run clear, about 30 to 40 minutes more.
• Let rest 10 minutes before carving. Meanwhile, pour pan juices into a small saucepan and simmer over medium heat until thickened, about 7 to 10 minutes. Taste and adjust seasoning, as desired. Carve chicken and serve each portion with 1 head of garlic and pan sauce.

SIMPLE SLOW ROAST CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C). Combine the paprika, black pepper, garlic salt, parsley, and marjoram in a small bowl. Pour the red wine into a roasting pan with lid; set aside.
• Place the celery and quartered onions into the cavity of the chicken. Rub the chicken with the reserved spice mixture, and set into the roasting pan.
• Cover, and bake the chicken in the preheated oven until no longer pink at the bone and the juices run clear, 4 to 5 hours. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the thigh, near the bone should read 180 degrees F (82 degrees C). Remove the chicken from the pan, cover with a doubled sheet of aluminum foil, and allow to rest in a warm area for 10 minutes before serving.

GARLIC ROAST CHICKEN

Steps:

• As soon as you get the chicken home, salt it inside and out, wrap it and keep it in the refrigerator for up to 2 days.
• When you are ready to cook the chicken, first preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
• Pat the outside of the chicken dry with paper towels. Liberally salt and pepper the inside of the chicken and stuff the cavity with the all the garlic and lemon. Tie the legs together with kitchen string and tuck the wing tips under the body of the chicken. Place it in a roasting pan just large enough to hold it and the vegetables. Scatter the onion slices, carrots and potatoes around the chicken. Brush the outside of the chicken with the butter and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
• Roast the chicken for 1 1/2 hours, or until the juices run clear when you cut between a leg and thigh. Remove the chicken to a platter and cover with aluminum foil. Place the vegetables back in the oven and continue cooking for an additional 15 minutes.
• When the vegetables are cooked, carve the chicken and place the slices on the platter surrounded by the vegetables. Drizzle some pan juices over the chicken and vegetables.

SLOW-ROASTED GARLIC

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Peel the head of garlic of all the papery skin with the exception of the very last layer.
• Garlic should still hold together in its original shape, but individual cloves should be visible.
• Rub head and inside of oven proof dish (a ramekin, custard dish will work) with butter or olive oil.
• Put water/stock in bottom of dish.
• Cover dish with foil and place in preheated oven for 45 minutes.
• After the 45 minutes are up, uncover the dish and bake for an additional 30 minutes.
• Remove garlic and dish from oven and allow to cool.
• After cooled, remove cloves and squeeze the roasted garlic from the cloves into a dish or container.
• The roasted garlic should be a light yellowy-brown and very soft and sticky.
• Store in the refrigerator and use in place of garlic for a milder and delicious flavor.

SLOW ROASTED WHOLE CHICKEN

Steps:

• In a small bowl mix together salt, paprika, onion powder, thyme, black pepper and garlic powder.
• Rinse the chicken and inside cavity under cold water, then pat dry using paper towel.
• Rub the chicken all over with oil.
• Rub the inside cavity with minced garlic, then season with white salt (or you may use the spice mixture for the cavity).
• Rub the outside of the chicken all over with the spice mixture.
• Place in a glass dish cover with plastic wrap then refrigerate for up to 8-24 hours.
• Set oven to 275°F.
• Place the chicken in a greased roasting pan, then place the onion quarters inside the cavity.
• Bake uncovered for about 4-1/2 hours or until very tender.
• Tent the cooked chicken with foil and let rest 15 minutes before carving.

SLOW-ROASTED CHICKEN WITH ALL THE GARLIC

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F. Trim dark tops from green garlic and place in chicken cavity; loosely tie legs together with kitchen twine. Halve green garlic bulbs and pale-green parts. Place chicken in a 2-qt. baking dish; season with salt and pepper. Tuck green garlic, garlic cloves, and lemon wedges around (make sure everything fits snugly to keep garlic from getting too dark); pour oil over. Roast, turning garlic and lemon occasionally, until chicken is very tender and garlic is soft and deeply caramelized, 2 1/2-3 hours. Serve chicken with garlic and lemon alongside.

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.

SLOW-ROASTED GARLIC & LEMON CHICKEN

Steps:

• Pre-heat the oven to 160ºC.
• Put the chicken pieces into a roasting tin and add garlic cloves, lemon chunks and the thyme; just roughly pull the leaves off the stalks, leaving some intact for strewing over later.
• Add the oil and using your hands mix everything together, then spread the mixture out, making sure all the chicken pieces are skin side up.
• Sprinkle over the white wine and grind on some pepper, then cover tightly with foil and put in the oven to cook, at flavour-intensifying low heat, for 2 hours.
• Remove the foil from the roasting tin, and turn up the oven to 200ºC and cook the uncovered chicken for another 30-45 minutes, by which time the skin on the meat will have turned golden brown and the lemons will have begun to scorch and caramelise at the edges.
• Serve straight from the roasting tin to plate.

SLOW COOKER GARLIC CHICKEN

Steps:

• Pour stock and wine into cooker.
• Combine salt, pepper and Herbes De Provence and sprinkle on both sides of chicken.
• Put chicken into cooker and add garlic around chicken.
• Cover and cook on low for 8 hours.