French ‘Roast’ Lemon & Thyme Chicken

Name: French ‘Roast’ Lemon & Thyme Chicken
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 3 h 45 min
Total time: 4 h 10 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 30 g/1 oz goose fat or duck fat, or 2 tbsp olive oil; 125 ml/4 fl oz/½ cup dry white wine; 1 onion, sliced; 250 ml/9 fl oz/1 cup Chicken Stock or ready-made stock; 1 oven-ready chicken, about 1.5 kg/3 lb 5 oz, any fat in the cavity removed; sautéed potatoes, to serve; finely grated zest of ½ lemon, with the whole lemon reserved and pricked all over with a fork; 8 thyme sprigs; 30 g/1 oz butter, softened; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 garlic cloves, smashed; 1 shallot, sliced; 1 celery stick, chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
4 hr 30

Appears in

I Love My Slow Cooker

By Beverly LeBlanc

Published 2012

About

Ingredients

30 g/1 oz butter, softened
8 thyme sprigs
finely grated zest

Europe
France
Main course
Gluten-free
Mediterranean

Method

Put an upturned heatproof saucer in the slow cooker. (Check that the chicken will be able to sit on top of the saucer with the cooker lid in place.) Preheat the covered cooker on HIGH.

Mix together the butter, leaves from 3 of the thyme sprigs and the lemon zest and season with salt and pepper. Carefully ease your hand under the skin of the chicken, then gently lift the skin, taking car