Herb Baked Chicken with Gravy is what you make when you need to feed a crowd! Crispy baked apple slices’s call it a shortcut EASY roast chicken! Handy to make loads, reheats JUICY and comes with an incredible fuss-free gravy for chicken.
This recipe is a lifesaver for holiday entertaining and feeding groups! Herb Baked Chicken This is a chicken recipe that we made last weekend when catering a Christmas Lunch for my mother’s friends. So we came up with this baked chicken recipe with a really terrific herb flavour, adapting slightly from this butterflied roast chicken from Serious Eats from which we took tips for how to make baked chicken as juicy as possible. What you need for this Herby Baked Chicken Remember I promised easy?
PS In case you’re wondering, there is no garlic in this because it’s cooked at a high temperature which makes garlic burn. What type of chicken to use? I opted for in the video. We butterflied our own chicken for the lunch because we knew some people would want breast. This baked chicken is great for scaling up because you can roast a double batch at the same time! How to make it And here’s how to make this Herb Baked Chicken. The key in this recipe is patting the skin dry, just a BIT of oil and roasting at a high temperature which seals the juices in!
To clarify, you DO lose the crispy skin when reheated the next day. Simple way to make Gravy for Chicken Most of my traditional roast recipes call for gravy to be made using the roasting pan set on the stove. It usually involves man handling a large pan, setting it over a couple of burners and some sort of straining. I skip all of that for this baked chicken recipe!