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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4 to 6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
French at Heart: Recipes That Bring France Home

By Marjorie Taylor and Kendall Smith Franchini

Published 2025

  • About

This is our go-to Sunday family dinner, served with our Woodland House Garden Salad and often tomatoes or green beans from the garden or Potatoes en Persillade. There are so many ways to roast a chicken (we often roast it rotisserie-style in the kitchen hearth), but we find this one best. We start by rinsing the bird thoroughly (still a common practice in France), and then drying it well, so the skin browns beautifully. (