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Poulet Roti (french Roast Chicken) Recipe
Serves: 4
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Ingredients
1
lg
Roasting chicken (3-4lb)
½
each
Lemon
Salt & pepper
1
ts
Fresh tarragon OR
½
ts
Dried tarragon
3
each
(To 4) Strips bacon
2
tb
(To 4) butter; melted
Fresh watercress garnish
Directions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Wipe chicken with damp towel.
- Rub with lemon.
- Sprinkle cavity with tarragon.
- Salt and pepper outer skin.
- Place chicken on a rack in a shallow roasting pan.
- Cover with bacon and roast for 30 minutes.
- Remove bacon, baste with butter and pan juices.
- Roast another 30 minutes.
- Baste, and roast a final 10 minutes.
- Remove chicken, let stand 5 minutes before carving.
- Garnish with watercress.
- Makes 4 servings.
- Source: Bon Appetit, January 1977; typos by Dorothy Flatman 1996