Roast Lemon Chicken

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Appears in Cook's Country April​/May 2009, Cook's Country TV

To get lemon flavor that's more than skin deep, we squeezed, buttered, and brined. Then we got a better idea.

SERVES 3 to 4

TIME 1½ hours

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Butterflying the chicken with kitchen shears allowed us to more easily flavor the bird with lemon and sped up roasting time for our Roast Lemon Chicken. To infuse the meat with bright lemon flavor, we made a lemon zest-sugar-salt mixture to...

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