Mom's Foolproof Butter-roast Chicken

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 3 1/2 lbs chicken, cleaned,with skin
• 2 tablespoons butter (olive oil works, too)
• 1/2 lemon
• salt and black pepper

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 450 degrees f.
• 2 pat dry the chicken and rub the inside with half of the lemon; squeeze the juice inside also and place in chicken cavity.
• 3 season cavity with salt and pepper.
• 4 rub outside of chicken with butter, season to taste with salt and pepper, and truss chicken.
• 5 place chicken breast up on a rack in a roasting pan in the center of the oven.
• 6 roast about one hour or until chicken juices run clear, or until thickest part of the thigh registers 185 degrees f on a meat thermometer.
• 7 remove chicken from oven and let stand 10 minutes before carving (for juicier meat).
• 8 note: at no time during roasting is basting required.
• 9 leave the oven door closed.