I'll be honest- this was an expiriment. I have absolutely never cooked a whole chicken. This was absolutely delicious. My brother in law went on for 15 minutes about how good this was. Chicken is one of those things that there is about a thousand ways to cook, and I had avoided putting chicken in the crockpot for fear of the stringiness of shredded chicken. So I tried it anyway, and eureka...success!! The roasted potatoes were that perfect roasted color on the outside and buttery on the inside. this was really a delicious and very simple meal...again using only ingredients found at aldi's. The chicken costed me 4.17 and was huge! This meal fed 4 people and there was plenty of left overs for possibly chicken salad?? We'll see. I would say this meal may have costed 6 dollars total, and fed all of us and then some!
Ingredients for crockpot/ roast chicken
- a whole 4-5lb chicken
- two packages of "chef's cupboard" onion soup mix
- 2 Tablespoons of garlic powder (give or take depending on how much you like garlic)
- 1 large onion
- 1 bag of baby carrots
- 1 T of dried parsley
- Dump your carrots into your crockpot
- Remove the giblets from your chicken by removing the bag in the cavity
- Rinse your chicken well and put peeled onion inside the cavity
- Use the onion soup and garlic powder and rub all over the chicken underneath the skin as well as on top of the skin.
- Sprinkle parsley over top
- Refrigerate the chicken for an hour or more\
- Replace crockpot and cook on high for five hours
- Preheat oven to 375 and cook chicken for 15 minutes to get a nice crispy skin
While the chicken is cooking work on your potatoes.
Ingredients to make roasted potatoes for 4 people
- 3 Tablespoons of olive oil
- 4 large gold yukon potatoes
- 1 T of garlic salt
- 1 teaspoon of parsley
- Preheat oven to 375
- Cube potatoes, and toss in garlic salt, parsley, and olive oil
- Bake for 1 hour in foil lined pan of your choice
- Delicious!
and the finished product...
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