How to Cook a Whole Chicken in Convection Oven
Cooking chicken in a convection oven may be challenging your first time or two. The general rule of thumb is 20 minutes for every pound plus 20 more minutes in a regular oven. Convection ovens get much hotter, but now you can have quality chicken every time. Does this Spark an idea?
Things You'll Need
- Baking pan
- Seasoning salt
- Pepper
- Rosemary
- Celery
- Onion (white or yellow)
- 1/2 lemon
Instructions
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Preparing the Chicken
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Clean out the chicken. Depending on the chicken you purchased, the insides may already be in a bag that you just remove the bag. If there is no bag, remove the heart, liver, gizzard and neck from inside the chicken.
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Wash the chicken in the sink with cool water inside and out. Place the chicken into the pan, then break four celery stalks in half. Cut the onion in half, then quarters.
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Insert the celery, one or two quarters of the onion and the half of lemon inside the chicken.
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Sprinkle the seasoning salt, pepper and rosemary onto the chicken to taste.
Cooking the Chicken
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Pre-heat your oven to 375 degrees. Once at temperature, place the chicken into the oven.
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Cook the chicken for 15 minutes per pound. Make sure to check the chicken during the last 15 minutes; it should already be nicely browning.
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Remove the chicken from the oven and take out the celery and lemon.
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Comments
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I cooked the chicken as described, and even checked the chicken with a thermometer, 165 in breast, 185 in the dark meat, and I cut it and the middle was raw. put it back in the oven for another 25 minutes and it came out awesome, just lucked into it, but it was tasty.
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can't read the lower portion on prpreparing the chicken. it's a white blank page.
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It says 20 min per pound in a convential oven. Convection cooks faster.
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The 20 mins per lb plus 20 mins is for a CONVENTIONAL OVEN. The recipe, and 15 mins per lb is for a CONVECTION OVEN. DEW
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You say "The general rule of thumb is 20 minutes for every pound... plus 20 minutes", then for the recipe you say "Cook the chicken for 15 minutes per pound". So what's the deal?
