Roast chicken

Roast Free-Range Chicken

There's nothing better than a roast chicken, but there are some tricks to bringing out the flavour.
I always buy a free-range chicken, as the flavour cannot be beaten and there are no nasty antibiotics or steroids fed to them.

Ingredients

1 free-range chicken
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon mixed herbs
1/2 bulb of garlic
1 lemon
Maldon salt
freshly ground black pepper

Method

Preheat the oven Gas 5. Put the chicken in a roasting tray and pop a couple of the garlic cloves into the cavity of the chicken. Drizzle over the olive oil and sprinkle over the mixed herbs, some salt and ground black pepper, massage into the chicken. Cut the lemon in half, squeeze the juice of half of the lemon over the chicken and pop the other half into the cavity of the chicken.
Pop the remaining garlic cloves under the chicken.
Roast the chicken for 1 1/2 hours (20 mins per lb plus 20 mins) is my normal timings. Baste every 20 minutes.

Serve with roast potatoes and veg.