Slow-Roasted Whole Chicken with Olives, Shallots and Lemon

ButcherBox Kitchen Team

· February 1, 2023

3 hrs 5 min

Total

Servings

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Ingredients

1 ButcherBox Whole Chicken

roughly 3-½ to 4-½ pounds
Salt
Pepper
5 small shallots
1 jar pitted Castelvetrano olives
1 large lemon
4 tbsp olive oil
6 cloves garlic
1/4 cup roughly chopped oregano

Step By Step

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350ºF degrees. Trim chicken of any extra fat and/or skin and discard. Place the chicken into an oven-safe vessel with a little extra room on the sides for the other ingredients, like a 9x13x2-inch baking dish. Season generously with salt and pepper before baking (it's always better to season as far in advance as possible, like a day before you start cooking).

Bake the chicken for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Drain the olives, saving ½ cup of the liquid, peel the shallots, crush and peel the garlic and slice the lemon into ¼-inch to ½-inch half moons, removing the seeds. Set all of this aside.

At 1 hour and 15 minutes, carefully open the oven, take out the baking dish and scatter the olives, shallots, lemon and garlic around the chicken. Pour the reserved olive brine into the dish, drizzle with the remaining 2 tablespoons of olive oil, and place back in the oven. Bake until the chicken is golden and browned in parts; it should register 165°F (73.9°C), set in the thickest part of a thigh, on a meat thermometer. The lemons, shallots and garlic should have softened too. Cook about 1 hour and 30 minutes longer (2 hours and 45 minutes total).

Transfer the chicken onto a cutting board to rest; return the baking dish with the olive, shallots and lemon to the oven, turn up the temperature to 450ºF; and cook until the ends of the lemons have singed and the olives blistered, about 15–20 minutes.

Serve the chicken whole or cut into pieces and transfered to a platter. Fold the oregano into the olives, shallots, lemon and olive oil brine liquid then quickly spoon everything over the chicken and on the side of it.

Total Time 3 hrs 5 min

Servings 4

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Ribeyes (2 x 10 oz steaks)
New York Strips (2 x 10 oz steaks)
Top Sirloin Steaks (4 x 6 oz steaks)
Filet Mignons (2 x 6 oz steaks)

For the true steak lover, this box is pure holiday joy. A premium lineup of grass-fed, high-flavor steaks that guarantees smiles, sizzling pans, and plates worth celebrating.

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Ingredients

Instructions

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