1- 4-5 pound chicken
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 lemon
1 handful fresh basil
salt
pepper
garlic powder
onion powder
dried basil
6-8 cloves garlic
1 onion, quartered
1 pound (or more if you want them) potatoes, peeled and quartered
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Rinse and dry the chicken.
- Squeeze the lemon juice all over the chicken and put halves inside the chicken along with the fresh basil, garlic and some of the onion.
- Season outside of chicken liberally with salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder and dried basil.
- Put potatoes and remaining onion in a large Dutch oven, add olive oil and season with salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder and dried basil.
- Set chicken on top of potatoes.
- Cover and put in oven for 1.5-2 hours, checking the temperature with a thermometer at 1.5 hours. The breast should read 170, the thigh 180 degrees.
- Remove and let rest for about 10 minutes.
