I made roast chicken in a slow cooker, 8 hrs on low – pretty easy, very tasty.
Slow Cooked Roast Chicken
Author: Alexis Avila, A Day in the Bite
Recipe type: chicken
Cuisine: French
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Serves: 4
I made roast chicken in a slow cooker, 8 hrs on low - pretty easy, very tasty.
Ingredients
- 1 Bag of Carrots, peeled, chopped
- 4 Celery Hearts, chopped
- 1 bag yellow or red potatoes, peeled, cut into 1 to 2 inch pieces
- 1 onion halved
- 1 whole chicken 4 lbs give or take a pound
- 4 tsp salt
- ½ tsp cayenne pepper
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 TB of chopped fresh thyme (dried is ok)
- 2 tsp ground black pepper
- 2 TB crushed garlic
- 1 lemon halved
- 1 five cloves garlic
- 2 TB butter
Instructions
- pat dry chicken inside and out
- massage butter onto chicken skin
- in glass bowl mix dry ingredients, garlic and thyme together and massage onto chicken
- put half lemon, garlic, half onion, and thyme into cavity
- Add vegetables (half onion, carrots, celery, potatoes) at the bottom of slow cooker
- Place chicken on top of veggies
- Set slow cooker to low for 8 hours
- take out chicken and make sure temperature between breast and leg is at least 160 degrees
- Let chicken sit for ten minutes
- Carve chicken, serve with veggies
- Enjoy
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