Quick And Easy Cooking

We like baked chicken.  I will sometimes buy the rotisserie chicken at Walmart.  I think their prices recently went up, but they used to sell them for $3.97.  That’s a decent price when you consider that all you do is bring it home and serve it.   I checked the other day and their chickens seem to have gotten smaller, but maybe it is just my imagination.

Fixing baked chicken is really easy.  I have a convection oven and I set mine to “Roasting”.  I’m not sure if it really makes a difference, but since I have that option on my oven I use it.  I like to put my chicken on a stand so that it stands up in the oven.  I prefer baking my chicken this way because the skin gets nice and brown all the way around.  I like the skin.  I know, that is the most fattening part of a chicken, but it’s what I like.  My husband doesn’t care much for the skin, so this works out for us.

Here is my own recipe for baked chicken.  It’s nothing fancy, but it’s good.

Ingredients:

1 whole chicken

oil

Spices:

Rotisserie Chicken Seasoning by McCormick 

or

salt

pepper

garlic powder

paprika

oven thermometer

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Rinse the chicken and then spread oil over it.  Sprinkle the seasoning over it and rub it in.  If you are using your own seasonings, I highly recommend that you add paprika to it.  Paprika will make it brown.  I feel it is a must for chicken and turkeys.  Place in the oven and bake for about an hour or until thermometer reaches 180. 

Let cool for about 10 minutes before serving.