I'm new to your site, but have to say I love your style of cooking.

This is the BEST chicken I have baked. I've shied away from roasting a chicken because it always turned out dry and yukky. I decided to try your way and WOW!! I (baked) your Grilled Scalloped Potatoes too! Very impressed in our house! I baked the potatoes for the last hour and a half with the chicken. Perfect!

It's only two of us, so we have lots of yumminess for a few days - which I'm going to try a few of your other recipes.

This chicken rocks. Only thing I do differently is I add onion powder, stuffing and use a cooking bag. Then with the leftovers I make a velvety chicken harvest soup that rivals O'Charley's. Since I usually fix two chickens at a time, there are always plenty of leftovers! I just cut up the chicken (light and dark) into chunks and stow in the fridge until right at the end. I melt a stick of butter in a dutch oven or stock pot then slowly add flour to make a thick rue. Then I add the drippings I save from the chicken pan, water & whole milk (usually 6 cups or more of each as I make a large batch), a can or two of chicken broth (I just use about 2-3 cups of chicken broth made with the giblets that I drain off of leftover noodles if there is any left), and chicken base to taste. I then put in chunks of carrots and celery, onion powder, garlic powder, black or white pepper, and salt to taste. I then sometimes need to add more flour (made into a rue with warm water) slowly - depending on how much I'm making - until it gets it's velvety texture. I then add the chicken and leftover egg noodles (medium size egg noodles are fine) that I had fixed the day before to accompany the chicken. Give it a few minutes to allow the chicken and noodles time to get up to temp and then voila! One tasty way to reuse this wonderful roast chicken. Sorry it's not an exact science, I just go by my tastebuds but I hope you like it if you try it.

Love this. Super easy as I have never cooked a whole chicken before this recipe. I make it again and again! Thank you!

My husband was crazy for this chicken, and my two fussy eaters liked it, too! I'm Jewish and my husband is not, but this cooking often reminds me of my childhood. :) My mom, when I told her what I was making, said that we call it stewed or baked chicken, but maybe that's a NY thing.

We loved this simple, yet fabulous chicken! The only thing that I would do differently is leave out the lemon pepper. To me the flavor didn't go very well, and made my gravy taste off. That could just be my pregnancy taste buds speaking though :) Thanks for making a roast chicken easy for me!

This is the best chicken I have ever made.I have made it a few times now.I remembered to post about it since I put one in the oven for dinner tonight.It is the moistest chicken.

I make this maybe once a week, sometimes I make it just for the chicken to use in other recipes! Its very good, and very easy to prepare. Very easy on the budget. I sure hope that chicken prices do not raise like everything else has. I use the flavored broth off the chicken for new creations with the leftover chicken meat.

The ONLY way to do oven roasted chicken!

This recipe was so easy. It only took a few minutes to prepare the chicken for roasting and then the oven did the rest of the work for me. : ) Gotta love those kinds of recipes. The chicken turned out much more juicy than most other recipes I've tried before. My other favorite chicken roasting method is the old-school recipe of putting the roasting pan into a large brown grocery sack and cooking it that way. I did find that the brown bag method got the chicken skin very crispy and golden. The cleanup with that method was just a little more than yours though. I will be going between these 2 methods depending on what type of chicken / cleanup I am looking for. Thanks for sharing!

Threw this is the oven before we left for church yesterday morning. The smell when we came home was fabulous. This is definitely a keeper. We all loved it! Unfortunately we didn't have much left to use for leftovers. :)

I love Roasted Chicken and have tried a few recipes that didn't turn out as well as I would have liked (meaning dry.) This is such a great and easy way to have juicy, delicious chicken! I used the carcass to make soup the next night and also had enough leftover meat for a casserole since it is just 2 of us at this household. So frugal and yet there is just something about a great roast chicken that is simple and elegant. I am trying to learn how to be a better cook and this site is such a help. Thank you Tammy!

Well, I copied down the recipe last week after reading other people's
reviews thinking I'd give it a try. I love roasted chicken and someone
gave us a meal after my second child with something close to this but
she didn't really have a recipe to pass along. I tried variations from
time to time but until now I hadn't got the right one. This was SO
EASY and SO MOIST AND TASTY!! My husband couldn't believe how little
ingredients there were to make it this good. I was trying for the
'breast side up on the serving platter' but it was so tender it just
fell apart - oh well, we were there to eat it anyway. It just melted
in our mouths - this will be the way I'll be doing my chicken from now
on. And this just in time... we are raising chickens and our first
ones will head to the freezer in a few weeks. Thanks for sharing!!

I really appreciated this recipe, Tammy! Of course, I was skeptical at first by the cooking method. But now, I too will cook all my fryer chickens this way. My husband was thrilled, too! Thanks for an honest review. This chicken recipe truly is a MUST-TRY!

I can't believe how easy and tasty this recipe is! I cooked my chicken in a round casserole dish. It turned out perfectly moist and tasty (I should have removed the skin though, because it stuck to the lid!) I'll probably use this recipe anytime I need a simple roast chicken recipe! Thank you :)

When I first read the insructions for this recipe, they seemed a bit unusual to me, but now having tried this method I will only cook my whole chickens this way!!! This is the moistest, juiciest chicken we've had in a long time and easiest too! I pop it in the oven in the morning and we have fresh chicken meat for sandwiches and of course cooked, cubed chicken for Tammy's other scrumscious recipes for leftovers :)

I was so excited to find a chicken on sale this week since I had been wanting to roast one and to try your cream of chicken soup recipe. My husband's aunt and uncle use to raise organic chickens and I would cook them exactly the same way. I don't have a roasting pan, so I put it in a 13 x 9 pan and turn another one upside down on top of it. That worked well. Now I am boiling the bones to make more broth and hopefully more soup. = D

I made this for lunch today, it was really yummy. My husband loved it. I will be using this method for all my future roast chicken.

This was my first time roasting a chicken, and now I can't believe I've waited so long to try it! It couldn't be easier and was so delicious, moist, tender, and definitely better than any rotisserie chicken I've ever bought. My husband couldn't stop talking about how tasty it was. This will become a staple at my house as well. Thank you Tammy!

This chicken was so moist and delicious. This was my first time to make it and I used adobe seasoning and garlic salt liberally. It was too salty. Will watch for this next time. It smelled wonderful cooking. My husband and 18 month old LOVED it. Thanks for sharing. Tracy

This is a staple in our home for all the right reasons: It tastes great and makes for a very nice dinner, it is affordable, it is easy to make, it is a meal you can easily plan and prepare ahead, and the leftovers not only have a great taste but are equally versatile in regards to the number of meals they can be included in. The chicken itself is very tender and juicy and the rudimentary spices produce a result much more than the sum of their parts. Whether you need a meal you can plan ahead or are looking for a nice, family pleasing meal with all the garnish, this roasted chicken recipe is sure to please. Two thumbs up!

Please see my review at the end of the recipe. Thanks! ~ Tammy