Roasted Wine Infused Lemon Chicken

This is an easy way to roast a chicken and give it several different flavours. You end up with a chicken that is crispy on the outside, juicy on the inside, and sweet and smokey all over!

Roasted Wine Infused Lemon Chicken

Ingredients: 

-1 whole chicken, 3-5 lb

-1 TBSP onion powder

-1 TBSP salt

-1 TBSP smoked paprika

-1 tsp black pepper

-1 tsp dried oregano

-2 tsp brown sugar

-Olive oil, as needed

- 2 lemons, 1 sliced and 1 cut in half

-8 oz dry white wine

Instructions: 

1.) Preheat oven to 350 degrees

2.) Combine spices and brown sugar in a bowl

3-) Lay the chicken down on a foil lined roast pan and cut under the skin of the chicken, on both sides. Apply olive oil to your hands and slide your hand under the skin on both sides, greasing the chicken well (this will make the skin very crispy) and then grease the outside of the chicken as well.

4.) Use the spice and sugar blend to season the chicken, under the skin and on the surface of the bird.

5.) Put a few slices of lemon under the skin of the chicken.

6.) Use half of a lemon as a plug for the chicken's bottom (I know, I know).

7.) Stand the chicken up and pour the wine into the chicken's top cavity. Plug with the other half a lemon

8.) Gently lay the chicken back down in the pan and bake for roughly 1 1/2- 2 hours, or until the juices run clear.