Oven-roasted Chicken, With Roasted Garlic And French Bread

Total Time: 1 hr 37 mins Preparation Time: 7 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 whole chicken
• 1/2 teaspoon rosemary
• 1/2 teaspoon thyme
• 1/2 teaspoon sage
• 4 heads garlic (in skins)
• salt and pepper
• 4 -6 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 cup chicken broth
• crusty french bread

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 400.
• 2 wash and dry chicken, and remove giblets.
• 3 baste (or rub) whole chicken with olive oil.
• 4 mix salt and pepper to taste, and all other spices, in small bowl, and then rub over entire chicken (leave a small amount of spice mixture remaining).
• 5 put leftover spice mixture, and 4 indiviudal garlic cloves, inside cavity of chicken.
• 6 place chicken in large roasting pan (without rack).
• 7 take apart remaining garlic bulbs (leaving skins on) and place garlic cloves all around chicken.
• 8 pour chicken broth over all.
• 9 cover with foil and bake for 1 hour, then remove cover, and bake for 35 to 40 mins, until chicken is browned.
• 10 remove chicken from oven and let cool for a few minutes.
• 11 carve chicken, while heating up french bread (if you like your bread warmed).
• 12 serve chicken pieces and french bread, with roasted garlic cloves.
• 13 squeeze roasted garlic (which will squeeze nicely right out of the skins) onto slices of french bread and/or onto chicken pieces, as you eat it (we love to squeeze garlic right onto our chicken, as well as onto the bread).