Lemon Chicken recipe by Giuliano Bugialli, wow.

I did it, osso!
Nice, but my "adjustments" will need further adjusting in the future: My chicken was much smaller than that the recipe suggested (being a 1 person + 1 cat household), I think I put in a little too much lemon juice, & I had to adjust the cooking time for longer (possibly my less than state of the art stove).


I speak from a one woman one dog household, but then I like leftovers.


First time I did it, I think I had the oven a tad low, and cooked it longer, and it wasn't entirely like the picture, which had somewhat browned lemons... and mine weren't;
and the second time, with the oranges, I put the oven higher and had to take out one or two burning orange pieces. So, let's say watch it.

Anyway, verdict: A very, very easy way to cook a chicken! Tasty! And I think I might need a larger dish next time. I used a glass one like you, but the chicken ended up a wee bit crowded in it.

Question: should my dish have had a lid on it? Would that have quickened the cooking time?

I wouldn't lid it, that would make the thing steam, and what we are after is a relatively flattened chicken roasting away...


Another question: what do you think of substituting tarragon for the parsley? (I'm not too sure about the combination of parsley & lemon, though. ) I ask because I have lots of tarragon at the moment & parsley pretty much all year around.

sounds good to me, don't see why not, maybe cav will tell us.


Anyway, thank you, osso!

Oh, and my next adjustment will be for more garlic.

Signed,

Garlic Queen