Crazy Orange Turtle’s Gluten Free Kitchen

Nothing is simplier and tastier on a weekend than a nice roasted chicken - it only takes a few minutes to prepare and an hour to roast. You can accompany the chicken with almost anything: pasta, rice, potatoes, salads, carrots, broccoli etc. etc. anything goes!

The key to my recipe is the spice mix and the lemon. The spice mix is great to use on any poultry dish — the mix makes enough for this recipe and more for storage, so you can just pull it out and use it whenever you make poultry.

Ingredients

• 1 chicken
• 1 lemon
• Crazy’s chicken spice mix, enough to cover chicken (recipe below)
• salt (if desired)

Directions

1. Wash and pat dry the chicken
2. Rub Crazy’s spice mix all over the surface of the chicken, along with salt (if desired)
3. Cut lemon in half, shove one half of the lemon into the chicken, this will keep the chicken nice and moist
4. The other half of the lemon should be juiced, and the juiced poured over the top of the chicken
5. Roast chicken at 400F (205C) until the internal temperature of the dark meat reaches 170F (76C), this will take 40 minutes to an hour depending on the size of your chicken. If the internal temperature still has not reached the appropirate temperature after an hour, just keep roasting - you just have yourself a very large chicken.
6. Remove from roasting pan and carve. I like cutting the chicken into quarters instead of carving. Whatever you do, please enjoy!

Crazy’s Chicken Spice Mix

In a small bowl combine the following dried herbs and spices:

• 1 tablespoon (15 mL) rosemary, preferably ground but whole works as well
• 1 tablespoon (15 mL) oregano
• 1 tablespoon (15 mL) sage
• 1 teaspoon (5 mL) powdered ginger
• 1 teaspoon (5 mL) marjoram
• 1 1/2 (7.5 mL) teaspoons thyme
• 3 tablespoons (45 mL) packed brown sugar
• 3 tablespoons (45 mL) minced parsley
• 1 teaspoon (5 mL) freshly ground black pepper
• 1 tablespoon (15 mL) smoked paprika

Mix well, and store extra in an air tight container

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