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Lemon garlic butter roast chicken

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Ingredients
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  • 1 whole whole chicken
  • lemon
Zest the lemon into a bowl, halve it and juice it in, removing the seeds.
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • olive oil
Mince four cloves of garlic and add with olive oil, softened butter, salt and pepper; stir to a very thick mixture.
  • softened butter
  • salt
  • freshly ground pepper
Lift the breast skin gently and push butter mixture underneath; coat the whole bird with the rest.
Buttering under the skin
Put in the fridge (said as 'Three, zero').
  • 1 whole shallot
Put a shallot and the rest of the lemon in the cavity; tie the legs and around the back with string.
Stuffing the cavity and tying
Preheat the oven to 220C, lower to 190C and roast in a baking pan for an hour and 15 minutes.
Check the inner thigh with a thermometer; it must exceed 165F (it read nearly 200F).
Cut the string and remove the lemon and shallot; cut through the breast and spine, between white and dark meat, and remove the spine to make quarters.