Here’s another great recipe for your whole chicken. As I shared before, cooking your chicken in the crockpot produces tender, fall off the bone chicken.  The longer you cook it, the more it will fall apart.  If you want yours to keep it’s shape like the one in my picture, start checking for doneness after 6 hours.

This chicken is full of lemony-garlic flavor.  It has just the right amount of lemon flavor.  You can taste it but it is not overwhelming.  My kids love it.  I lost track of how many helpings my five year old had tonight.   This would also be divine served with garlic mashed potatoes or rice.  I think next time I make this I will try adding green beans with the onions.  Make sure you go heavy with the seasonings or the flavor won’t penetrate the skin.  Don’t forget to save the bones for homemade stock with a hint of lemon.  I use the broth to make rice.  Yum!

Ingredients:

• 1 Whole Chicken
• 1-2 Large Yellow Onions, sliced into wedges
• 2 Lemons or 1/2 cup Lemon Juice
• 1 1/2 tsp Garlic Powder
• Salt and Pepper
• Rosemary

Directions:

1.  Place onions in crockpot.

2.  Place the chicken on top of onions.

3.  Pour or squeeze lemon juice over chicken.  Try to get some juice in the cavity.

4.  Heavily salt and pepper the chicken outside and inside.

5.  Sprinkle garlic powder outside and inside of bird.

6.  Liberally sprinkle rosemary over outside and inside chicken.

7.  Cover and cook on low 8-10 hours.

UPDATE:  Be sure to check out this post on How to Have Crispy Skin in the Crockpot.  I haven’t tried it on this particular recipe yet, but I’m sure it would work.

Here are some of my favorite crockpot whole chicken recipes for the crockpot:

• Rotisserie Chicken in the CrockPot Recipe
• Mojo Chicken in the CrockPot
• Orange, Honey and Cumin Roasted Chicken (OK, so this one isn’t a crockpot recipe, but next time I make it it’s going to be in the crockpot!)

This recipe is based on this recipe at A Year of Slow Cooking.

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Yay!  I picked up my first locally raised pastured chicken of the season this weekend.  If you’ve ever watched Food, inc. or read Nourishing Traditions, you know why this is important to me.  If you haven’t checked out these two resources, you should!

Cooking these birds in the CrockPot produces tender, moist, fall off the bone chicken.  This is my favorite recipe for whole chicken.  It also makes the best stock, so save your bones!  You can read how to make chicken stock here.

Ingredients:

• 4 tsp Salt
• 2 tsp Paprika
• 1 tsp Cayenne Pepper
• 1 tsp Onion Powder
• 1 tsp Thyme
• 1 tsp White Pepper
• 1/2 tsp Black Pepper
• 1/2 tsp Garlic Powder

• 1-2 Onions, chopped (optional)
• 6-8 Yellow Potatoes (optional)

Instructions:

1.  Combine spices in a small bowl.

2.  If necessary, remove giblets from inside of chicken.  Rinse inside and outside of chicken and pat dry with paper towels.

3.  Massage chicken with spice mixture.

4.  Place onions and potatoes in the bottom of the CrockPot and lay the chicken on top.  I usually put some onions inside the chicken too.

5.  Cover and cook on low 4-6 hours or until chicken is falling off the bone.

The original recipe found at food.com recommends rubbing the spices on the chicken the night before you plan to cook it.  I am never that organized and I think it is awesome without that step.

UPDATE:  Be sure to check out this post on How to Have Crispy Skin in the Crockpot.  I haven’t tried it on this particular recipe but I’m sure it would work.

Here are some of my favorite crockpot whole chicken recipes for the crockpot:

• Lemon Herb Roasted Chicken in the CrockPot Recipe
• Mojo Chicken in the CrockPot
• Orange, Honey and Cumin Roasted Chicken (OK, so this one isn’t a crockpot recipe, but next time I make it it’s going to be in the crockpot!)

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