Roast Chicken

Total Time: 3 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 whole chicken
• 1 stalk celery
• 1 sweet apple (cored)
• 2 cloves garlic
• olive oil
• salt
• pepper (cracked, if wanted)

Recipe

• 1 wash and dry chicken.
• 2 pour olive oil onto one hand and coat all of the chicken.
• 3 season with salt and pepper.
• 4 place in roaster.
• 5 cut celery into half inch chunks and apples into eights.
• 6 place half of celery and half of apple pieces into chicken cavity.
• 7 place other half around chicken in roaster.
• 8 slice garlic cloves into slivers.
• 9 place half of them under the chicken skin in various places.
• 10 place other half either on top of the chicken skin or around the chicken.
• 11 place in oven at 350f and baste every half hour or so.
• 12 depending on size of chicken, roasting time will be hour and a half to three hours.
• 13 if wanted, add a few sprigs of fresh rosemary in and around the chicken.