The Perfect Roast Chicken

Goooooood day Foodies! I hope you're having a wonderful week and cooking up a treat! Today in Dad's kitchen we're cooking up the perfect roast chicken infused with Garlic, butter and Lemon!

There are a lot of ways to roast a chicken and I think nothing really beats a rotisserie because it gives you a lovely even cook. You can get one of those chicken stands which also works really well. But I have recently purchased myself an Air fryer!

I bought myself a Kogan 8.2L Air Fryer
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Now I am not to sure why they call it an Air Fryer because it is pretty much a mini electric oven that works a treat! But I guess Air Fryer was easier to take to market. Where I don't think it cooks chips and all your fried foods all that good (still better deep fried) It does however, cook some of the best roasts I have ever had!.

I have done a bit more of a tutorial video with this one because I felt it was a lot larger and needed more to it to ensure you got it right and could follow along at home. I'd also like to note you probably dont need to put butter in the thighs as that may have been a little overkill but it is still nice for flavour.

So first of all you want to get yourself a lemon and two garlic cloves and slice the lemon into pieces and the garlic up into halves. The place it all inside the chook with a small amount of butter.

Make small cuts into the chicken skin so you can get between the skin and the tissue. Slide the butter in this will ensure you have a lovely full flavoured and juicy chicken breast.

Cook facedown for 60 minutes at 180 degrees celsius then flip the chicken over and cook for another 20 minutes for 180 degrees celsius. Due to all the fat dripping to the bottom of the container this gives off a lovely crispy skinned rotisserie style chicken. I also added salt, pepper and olive oil all around the chicken and rubbed it in.

For sides I made some roast potatoes and pumpkin with a fresh garden salad.

This is one of my new favourite ways to cook roast chicken ever since getting the Air Fryer and it is great for a quick and easy way to cook. A wonderful investment and makes cleaning up a dream with no hard oven to scrub!

Let me know what you think in the comments section below.