Baked Garlic Chicken

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 (5 lb) whole chicken (a large one)
• 1 carrot (for flavor, not to be eaten by lowcarbers, removed from chicken after cooking)
• 1 medium onion, roughly chopped (removed)
• 1 leek, parts only,chopped (removed)
• 1 sprig rosemary
• 3 heads garlic (about 1 carb per clove)
• 3 cups quartered small new potatoes (removed)
• 1 (15 1/2 ounce) can chicken broth
• 1 cup dry wine or 1 cup vermouth (mostly cooks out)
• 3/4 cup soy sauce
• pepper
• paprika

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
• 2 separate all the cloves of garlic, but do not peel them.
• 3 wash and peel the carrot, and cut it into thick rounds.
• 4 chop the onion and leek.
• 5 remove the giblets and other inner parts from the chicken.
• 6 under tapwater, rinse the chicken well both inside and out.
• 7 place the carrot, onion, leek, and rosemary inside the chicken, and then put the bird in a medium roasting pan.
• 8 place all the unpeeled garlic cloves and quartered new potatoes in the pan around the chicken.
• 9 pour the chicken broth, then wine, then soy sauce over the chicken.
• 10 sprinkle with pepper and paprika.
• 11 bake for about one hour, basting at least three or four times with the pan juice.
• 12 when it is done, remove the chicken from the oven and let it sit for 5 minutes to rest.
• 13 remove the carrot, onion, leek, and rosemary sprig from inside and set aside.
• 14 then slice the meat and place on individual plates with several of the garlic cloves.
• 15 ladle a small amount of pan juices over the top of each serving.
• 16 the unpeeled garlic cloves should be soft and easily popped out of their skins for a tasty accompaniment!
• 17 note to lowcarbers: the carrot, onions, and leeks cooked inside the chicken, while tasty, are high in carbs. you should pass on the carrots, particularly, but you can have about a 1/4 cup cooked onion and leek for about 10 carbs; it's up to you to decide what your diet can allow you. the garlic is about 1 carb per clove, so again it's up to you how many of those you have.
• 18 this is the kind of chicken meal that you can fix for everybody in your family, lowcarb or not. regular-carb eaters will really enjoy the carrots and potatoes.
• 19 source: i think i found the original which i adapted at gail's recipe swap.