Roast Chicken with Rosemary and Garlic
Roast a perfect, moist bird in your slow cooker. This three ingredient slow cooker recipe couldn't be simpler, and in hours you will have a succulent chicken on the table. Serve this tasty treat with mashed potatoes, rice pilaf and your favorite salad.
Notes
For more delicious slow cooker meal
Cooking MethodSlow Cooker
Ingredients
- 5 pound whole roasting chicken
- 8 small sprigs of fresh rosemary
- 4 cloves garlic, halved
Instructions
- Remove excess fat from chicken. Remove giblets from chicken and refrigerate for another use. Rinse and drain chicken.
- Starting at neck cavity, carefully loosen skin from breast with your fingers or knife by gently pushing between the skin and meat. Insert 2 garlic cloves and 2 rosemary sprigs under breast skin at edge of wings. Continue pulling skin and insert 2 rosemary sprigs and 2 garlic pieces under drumstick skin. Make a small slit in skin on each wing. Insert a garlic piece and a rosemary sprig into each. Insert 2 garlic pieces and 2 rosemary sprigs in body cavity.
- Tie legs together and wings close to body. Place chicken, breast side down, in a 4 or 5-quart slow cooker.
- Cover and cook on LOW 6 or 7 hours or until juices are clear when thick part of chicken is pierced with a knife.
- Remove chicken from slow cooker and discard garlic and rosemary. Cut chicken into individual pieces and serve.