Easy Roast Chicken with Pan Gravy Recipe

One of the easiest meals to prepare is roasted chicken with homemade gravy.

What you'll need:

1 Whole Chicken

1/2 Small onion

2 Small carrots

Seasoning salt or plain salt

Pepper

1 Tbsp and 1 tsp dried Rosemary leaves

Chicken stock

Flour

1 Tbsp butter

Butchers twine

Remove the giblets from the cavity of the chicken and discard. Season the cavity generously with seasoning salt, pepper and 1 tsp rosemary and stuff with the onion and carrot.

Season the outside of the entire bird with the seasoning salt, pepper and 1 Tbsp of the rosemary. Then truss the chicken with butcher's twine.

Put the chicken in a roasting pan and insert a corded digital thermometer into the thickest part of the breast making sure not to let the tip of the probe touch any bone.

Put the chicken into a preheated 375 degree oven and cook until the thermometer reaches 160 degrees.

Remove from the oven. Place the bird on a cutting board to rest - the internal temp will naturally rise to 165. If there are accumulated juices in the cavity pour into the roasting pan.

On medium-low heat, add a 1/4 cup flour to the fat in the pan and stir until blended. Add some chicken stock (or water), or additional flour and stir until you have reached the desired consistency. Adjust seasonings for taste and then add a 1 Tbsp of cold butter, stir until melted.

Carve the bird and pour the gravy on the chicken (or under it as shown) and your side dish which could be rice, mashed potatoes or wide egg noodles.

Enjoy!

Note: If you want chicken breast to be juicy the two things that you must do, first is to truss the chicken and use a corded digital thermometer as instructed above.