Elswet's Roast Chicken

Total Time: 2 hrs 8 mins Preparation Time: 8 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• 4 lbs roasting chickens
• 1 large sweet apple, cored and quartered
• 1 large onion, quartered
• 1 teaspoon virgin olive oil
• 2 sprigs fresh thyme
• 2 garlic cloves, peeled, pressed
• 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground rosemary, measurement after grinding
• 1/2 cup brewed coffee, starbucks kenya is awesome
• 1/2 teaspoon rubbed sage
• salt and pepper
• 3 leaves fresh sage

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 2 wash, dry, and oil your chicken.
• 3 place on rack in a shallow open roasting pan. rub the skin with salt and pepper, rubbed sage, and fresh ground rosemary. place onion, apple, thyme, coffee, garlic, and sage leaves into cavity.
• 4 cover the top and sides of the bird with clean cheasecloth which has been moistened with oil. place the pan in preheated oven. do not add water [just the coffee] or cover the pan!
• 5 baste the chicken from time to time with the pan drippings.
• 6 roast for 30-45 minutes per pound, depending on chicken size, allowing longer per pound for a smaller chicken than for a larger one.
• 7 about 3/4 through the cooking time, turn the bird breast side up and finish cooking. the chicken is done when the thigh meat is soft when pinched.
• 8 do not pierce the skin with a fork as this allows all the wondermous juices to escape.
• 9 remove chicken to a heated platter and serve.
• 10 if you do not have access to the oil cloth, loosely cover the bird for the first 3/4 of cooking, turn, and remove cover for the remainder of baking time to allow browning.