Oven Roasted Chicken

This is one of my new favourite meals, and a hit with anyone who tastes it! I have had multiple people ask me for the recipe, so here you go!! The key to this recipe is the basting... you have to do it often, so this isn't a good meal to make if you can't take the time to baste!

Ingredients:

• 2 medium sized lemons
• 1/2 cup honey garlic BBQ sauce
• 1 1/2 tsp Italian seasoning blend
• 2 large cloves of garlic, peeled, minced
• 1 - 3lb whole chicken
• 1 cup chicken broth or stock

Heat the oven to 350 degrees.

Cut the lemons in half and squeeze the juice into a bowl, set 2 lemon halves aside.

Add BBQ sauce to the lemon juice, add seasoning and stir.

Place the chicken in a roasting pan that has been sprayed with cooking spray.

Rub the chicken with the lemon halves, then stuff half of the minced garlic in each half of the lemon, and put the lemon halves in the cavity of the chicken- stuff it back as far as you can!!

Rub the chicken with salt and pepper and drizzle a bit of the bbq sauce mixture on top of the chicken.

Pour the chicken stock in the bottom of the roasting pan.

Bake for 1hr 45 minutes. Baste with the chicken stock every 15 minutes for the first hour. Baste with the lemon/bbq sauce every 10 minutes for the last 45 minutes.

Remove chicken from the oven and let sit for 10 minutes for the juices to set. Discard the lemon halves. Carve the chicken.

Reserve the pan drippings to pour over rice or potatoes. ENJOY!!