French

Poulet Roti (French Roast Chicken)

Name: Poulet Roti (French Roast Chicken)
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 4 lb whole chicken; 3 tbsp butter, softened; 4 garlic cloves; 4 sprigs fresh thyme; 1 lemon; 1 tbsp olive oil; 1.5 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp black pepper

Colette @colette_lyon

Poulet Roti (French Roast Chicken) is French home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

90 min Medium Low carb Halal Gluten free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 lb whole chicken
3 tbsp butter, softened
4 garlic cloves
4 sprigs fresh thyme
1 lemon
1 tbsp olive oil
1.5 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Preheat the oven to 425 F and pat the chicken completely dry with paper towels.
Rub the softened butter all over the skin and inside the cavity, then season generously with the salt and pepper.
Stuff the cavity with the garlic cloves, thyme sprigs, and the lemon cut in half, then tie the legs together with kitchen string.
Drizzle the olive oil over the skin and roast the chicken breast side up for about 70 to 80 minutes, basting once or twice with the pan juices, until the skin is deep golden and a thermometer in the thickest part of the thigh reads 165 F.
Let the chicken rest for 10 minutes before carving so the juices settle, and serve with the pan juices spooned over the top.

Watch how to cook Poulet Roti (French Roast Chicken)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A French dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Poulet Roti (French Roast Chicken), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Aubergines au Four (Roasted Aubergine with Thyme and Garlic)
  
  40 min
Something cool and fresh
- Betteraves Vinaigrette (Beetroot with Mustard Vinaigrette)
  
  15 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Poulet Roti (French Roast Chicken) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Poulet Roti (French Roast Chicken)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Blanc de Poulet Grille et Haricots Verts (Grilled Chicken Breast with Green Beans)
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 550 kcal
Protein: 51 g
Carbs: 1 g
Fat: 38 g
Fiber: 0 g
Sugar: 0 g
Sodium: 580 mg
Saturated fat: 13 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Poulet Roti (French Roast Chicken) takes about 90 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.