Oven Roasted Chicken Recipe
Roast Chicken with a Cripsy Skin
We are a family that fights over the crispy parts of skin on roasted chicken. This Oven Roasted Chicken recipe gives you crispy skin all over instead of just a few select areas.
We frequently get asked "how to roast a chicken".
The best roast chicken is one that has crispy skin and there are a few ways to achieve this.
First, using a V-rack will keep the chicken from sitting in the drippings and getting soggy.
Secondly, the chicken is rubbed with a corn starch and salt mixture to get the skin toasty brown and crispy.
 The third method is to rotate the chicken a few times during cooking so that both sides and the top get enough heat. The chicken will be cooking at a high heat (475 degrees F) so that it cooks quickly and doesn't dry out.
The cooking times are for a chicken that is around 4 pounds. If your chicken is larger, then the cooking times will need to be extended.
Roast Chicken
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 hour
Ingredients:
- Roasting Pan
- V - rack or roasting rack
- Salt
- 1 Tablespoon cornstarch
- 1 - 4 pound whole chicken, throw away giblets, dry the skin with paper towels
Preparation:
- Cover a roasting pan with foil, bringing foil up sides of the pan.
- Place oven rack to middle position, put roasting pan in oven, heat oven at 475 degrees.
- Rub V-rack with vegetable oil.
- Mix 2 tsp salt and cornstarch in small bowl.
- Poke skin of chicken all over with skewer or tip of sharp knife.
- Spread cornstarch mixture over chicken with fingers.
- Using oven mitts take pan out of oven.
- Place chicken in V-rack, on it's side, with wing facing up, then place it into roasting pan.
- Put into the oven and cook for 15 minutes.
- Take pan out of the oven and grab a bunch of paper towels in each hand or use some oven mitts that you don't mind getting greasy, flip chicken so that other side is facing up.
- Roast for another 15 minutes.
- Remove roasting pan from oven one more time and using paper towels or oven mitts flip chicken breast side up (wings on bottom) in rack.
- Place back in oven and roast chicken until thermometer inserted into thickest part of thigh registers 170 degrees, about 20 to 30 minutes.
Carve chicken and serve
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