Crispy Roast Lemon Chicken

Name: Crispy Roast Lemon Chicken
Yield: Serves 3 to 4
Ingredients: 1/2 cup, table salt or 1 cup Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt or 3/4 cup Morton Kosher Salt; 1 , whole chicken (3 1/2 to 4 pounds), trimmed of excess fat, giblets removed and discarded, chicken rinsed and patted dry; , Cooking spray; 2 , medium lemons; 6 medium cloves, garlic, crushed and peeled; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter (1/2 stick), 2 tablespoons melted and the remaining 2 tablespoons chilled and cut into 2 pieces; , Ground black pepper; 1 3/4 cups, low-sodium chicken broth; 1 tablespoon, minced fresh parsley leaves; 1 teaspoon, minced fresh thyme leaves

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Chicken
Roasts

Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2003, America's Test Kitchen TV

More than 30 chickens and 90 lemons later, we found that when it comes to great roast chicken, nothing beats a little squirt.

SERVES 3 to 4

TIME 2¼ hours, plus 1 hour brining

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