Rustic Rosemary Chicken With Fresh Rolls

Total Time: 2 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• 1 head garlic
• 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
• 1 teaspoon olive oil, divided
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 2 teaspoons ground black pepper
• 2 frying chickens, cleaned, trimmed of fat and rinsed
• 8 sprigs fresh rosemary
• 1 large lemon, thinly sliced

Recipe

• 1 to roast whole garlic: trim off the top of garlic so that the cloves are just visible.
• 2 place on heavy foil folding up edges.
• 3 drizzle on 1 teaspoon olive oil.
• 4 roast garlic at 375°f for 45 minutes.
• 5 cool and remove cloves.
• 6 pinch cloves and squirt out roasted garlic.
• 7 mix with salt and pepper, set aside.
• 8 to prepare chicken: using fingers loosen skin on breast and slit each leg at thigh and loosen skin.
• 9 rub each chicken with seasoned garlic.
• 10 add two sprigs rosemary to each breast and one sprig to each leg.
• 11 place lemon slices on breast and under leg skin.
• 12 fold over skin.
• 13 tie chicken legs together with string.
• 14 rub chickens with remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil.
• 15 place chickens on roasting rack in roasting pan.
• 16 roast in 425° oven for 1 hour and 15 minutes or 1 hour and 25 minutes depending upon size of chicken. when sliced to the bone juices should run clear.
• 17 cook additional time if necessary.
• 18 serve with a crusty complement of francisco sourdough dinner rolls or francisco french dinner rolls.