This oven-roasted rooster is very easy and loaded with scrumptious taste! Add this to Sunday dinner!

❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE
We like to make this roasted rooster on a Sunday and revel in it over the week. This rooster is ideal to make chicken salad, or simply get pleasure from a rooster breast with a scrumptious meal, make rooster soup, rooster dumplings or any rooster dishes you want. It’s versatile too, you may swap up the spices.
SWAPS
This can be a versatile recipe; you may swap up the spices, and it may also be used on a turkey. This recipe is also used on a turkey breast you could simply have to regulate the spices.


⭐TIP
You need to guarantee the interior temperature reaches 165 levels. Additionally, you will need to let the rooster relaxation for about 20 minutes earlier than slicing or serving. It will hold the rooster moist!
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Oven Roasted Hen
This oven roasted rooster is very easy to make and tremendous versatile! You should use this rooster in many various recipes and it is nice to make on Sunday for dinner.
- 1 entire roasting rooster
- 1 stick unsalted butter
- 1 tablespoon dried rosemary or about 3 sprigs of contemporary
- 1 tablespoon dried thyme or 3 tablespoons contemporary
- 2 teaspoons onion powder
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons pepper
- Melted butter for basting
- Water to cowl backside of roasting pan
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Wash your entire rooster and minimize stick of butter into small pats with knife. Pull up the pores and skin on the entrance of the rooster add 3 or 4 pats of butter below the pores and skin. Add butter in crevices by every leg and every wing. Add some butter within the neck space.
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Soften about 3 tablespoons butter and brush the outer aspect of the rooster. Sprinkle rosemary, thyme, onion powder, salt and pepper all around the rooster. You should use kind of of those spices as you want.
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Add sufficient water to cowl backside of roasting pan and bake uncovered basting the rooster with melted butter at 30 and 60 minutes.
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Bake in a preheated 425 diploma oven for 90 minutes till inside temperature reaches 165 levels on a meat thermometer. Let relaxation about 20 minutes earlier than serving.
We make 2 every time by doubling this recipe. We love making rooster salad and having rooster to make use of in wraps or with meals. You may add a complete onion within the cavity together with some celery items in case you like. Might additionally add greens within the pan with the rooster resembling potatoes and carrots.
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