best ever sunday roasted chicken

Looking for the best every sunday roasted chicken? Look no further. This easy juicy roasted chicken is full of spices and fabulous flavor!

Easy Chicken Roast Dinner

Winner winner roasted chicken dinner! You bet there’s nothing more comforting than a big ol’ chicken dinner waiting for you on Sunday afternoon. As you well know, I look out for not only your good eating by creating healthy recipes, well, most of them healthy.

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Roast Chicken

I mean ya gotta have some fun sometimes! And, I also want to dream up ideas for you that are simple, easy and flat out almost effortless. And, that’s what this ‘best ever sunday roasted chicken’ dinner is. All those things in one big ol’ skillet or pot!

Simple Whole Roasted Chicken

Country Living magazine has a great article on the difference between ‘dinner’ and ‘supper’. I mean we don’t very often hear the word ‘supper’. Well, unless you’re from the South, and we know there’s a distinct difference.

If you’re looking for something more rustic and Italian in the chicken world, then you have to try my Hunter’s Style Chicken Cacciatore! Yes, it’s authentically from the Coselli Collection Cooking school in Tuscany Italy where I was in July 2022! 

Best Roast Chicken Recipe

While we in the South still sit down to ‘supper’, the word really originated with farmers. Rather than trying to paraphrase, here’s what the article says about ‘supper’:

According to the English Language & Usage Stack Exchange, a question-and-answer forum for linguists and etymologists, “many people who grew up in the American South and/or on farms traditionally ate larger meals at noontime to give them the strength to keep working through the afternoon.”

Crispy Roast Chicken

Supper, the site goes on to say, stems from the word “to sup,” which just goes to show that even back then, country folks loved their slow-cooker recipes: “Many farming families would have a pot of soup cooking throughout the day, and would eat it in the evening.” In other words, “they would ‘sup’ the soup.”

And, you bet I like the outside of my chicken crispy, so near the end of the cooking, I’m turning the oven to broil to sizzle and brown the skin of the chicken! 

Slow Cooked Whole Chicken

So, this recipe, which certainly could be cooked in a slow cooker as well as I’ve done in the oven, is for Sunday dinner! That big meal in the early afternoon after church.

Slow Cooker Whole Chicken and Vegetables

Yeah, yeah, I know now a lot of folks head to restaurants for lunch or brunch, but why not try stepping back in food history and having the ‘best ever Sunday roasted chicken’ for ‘dinner’. Then as the day wears on, TV is being watched, maybe sports, maybe just restin’ and relaxin’, grab something lighter for that evening meal!

best ever sunday roasted chicken

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Looking for the best every Sunday chicken dinner? Look no further. This easy juicy roasted chicken is full of spices and fabulous flavor!

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Ingredients

• Preheat oven to 350 & Turn to Broil for last 15 minutes
• 1 (10 oz.) diced tomatoes with green chilies + 2 cups water
• 1 (10.5 oz.) organic cream of chicken soup
• 2 ½ cups whole baby potatoes
• 3 small zucchini, sliced through the center into halves
• 3-4 carrots, tops trimmed, whole, small to medium sized
• 1 cup leeks, sliced with some of green tops
• 2 Tbl. Bragg Organic 24 Herbs & Spices Seasoning
• 1 tsp. coarse ground pepper
• 2 tsp. sea salt
• 1 Tbl. Bragg Premium Nutritional Yeast Seasoning
• ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1 (3 to 3 ½ lb.) whole chicken, preferably pasture-raised

Instructions

1. In a large baking pan or skillet about 4 inches deep, put a large piece of parchment paper. Put the diced tomatoes and water in the pan. Blend. Add the cream of chicken soup and whisk somewhat.
2. In a small bowl mix together the herb and spices seasoning, pepper, salt and yeast seasoning. Sprinkle about half on the vegetables.
3. Place the chicken in the center of the pan (it can overlap onto the veggies). Drizzle with the olive oil on the chicken and veggies. Massage the oil into the chicken. Sprinkle the remaining spice mixture onto the chicken.
4. Cover the chicken and entire pan tightly with a lid or parchment paper and double foil on top of that and secured all around the baking container.
5. Roast in a 350 preheated oven for about one hour.
6. Add the vegetables all around the perimeter of the chicken. Bak another about 30 to 45 minutes OR until the internal temperature of the thickest part of the chicken is 165+ degrees.
7. Remove the lid and/or cover. Turn oven to broil (chicken should be about 10” from broiler), and let it brown for about 10-12 minutes or to your desired golden browning.
8. Remove from the oven. Recover with the foil. Let the chicken rest about 15 minutes.

Notes

1. Any leftover broth/gravy is perfect in a chicken noodle soup.

2. Be sure to use the carcass, boil it in about 6 cups of water. Let small remnants of meat fall off. Make yourself a great broth. Once that carcass is clean as a whistle, you can dispose of it!

3. The vegetables you choose to add is totally your choice, and, boy, are there a lot of choices!

4. This recipe could certainly be done in a slow cooker. In order to get the golden browning on the chicken, however, it would need to be placed under the broiler until browning is achieved.

5. You can add the veggies from the start. However, they will be very soft and done. Adding them midway through the chicken roasting helps them be cooked but not really soft.

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