Garlic Parmesan Whole Roast Chicken

Why have one garlic parmesan wing when you can have the whole darn garlic parmesan chicken?!

Inspirations for recipes sometimes come from the strangest places. This one comes from my buddy Nick at dudefoods.com. He’s the guy who combined 43 different sandwiches at McDonalds and created the McEverything. He’s also responsible for the taco that broke the internet – the bacon weave taco shell. And while our food styles aren’t exactly the same, I’m always interested to see what craziness he’ll come up with next. But mac’n’cheese stuffed urrything aside, Nick is seriously obsessed with eating garlic parmesan wings. Quite literally, he eats them at least twice a week. AT LEAST. It was during one of his snapchatted wing sessions that I had the idea for an entire garlic parm roast chicken. So naturally, I dedicate this recipe to him.

Garlic Parmesan Whole Roast Chicken

Ingredients

• 1 whole roaster chicken
• 2 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese
• 1 tablespoon garlic powder
• 3 whole cloves garlic
• 1 tablespoon parsley, finely chopped
• 1 lemon
• 4 tablespoons butter (2 oz)
• 1 tablespoon salt
• spray oil

Instructions

1. Preheat an oven to 425f. Place a rack into a deep roasting pan and add 2 cups of water to the bottom of the pan.
2. In a small bowl combine parmesan, garlic powder and parsley then set aside.
3. Prepare the chicken. Rinse thoroughly with cold water, and remove any giblets from the cavity. Cut away any large flaps of fat near the cavity opening then pat the whole bird dry with paper towel.
4. Cut the lemon in half and stuff it and the garlic cloves inside the cavity. If you have any parsley stems left over you can stuff them in there too.
5. Take half the butter and rub all over the chicken, massaging into the skin. Season the bird all over with salt then place breast side up onto the rack in the roasting pan.
6. Take the parmesan mixture and press it onto the skin of the chicken to form a crust all over the top. Spray with a light mist of oil and place into the oven.
7. Roast for 20 minutes to develop color, then reduce heat to 375f. Melt the remaining butter and dab it gently onto the parmesan crust using a pastry brush. Continue roasting the chicken until a thermometer registers at 160f at the thickest part of the thigh, about one hour.
8. Remove from oven and loosely cover with foil to rest 10-15 minutes before serving.