Garlic Roast Chicken

Name: Garlic Roast Chicken
Yield: Serves 3 to 4
Ingredients: 50 , garlic cloves, peeled and halved (see note); 1/4 cup, extra virgin olive oil; 1 , whole chicken (3 1/2- to 4-pound) whole chicken; , Salt and pepper; 1 3/4 cups, low-sodium chicken broth; 3/4 cup, white wine; 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon, water; 1 teaspoon, cornstarch; 2 tablespoons, cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces; 2 teaspoons, finely chopped fresh tarragon

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Appears in Cook's Country February/March 2008

Main Courses

Chicken

Our quick "roasted" garlic flavors the meat and serves as the base of the pan sauce we serve with this chicken.

SERVES3 to 4

TIME2 hours, plus 20 minutes resting

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Flavoring a roast chicken with garlic sounds easy, but while testing existing garlic roast chicken recipes, we learned that the garlic flavor was either nonexistent or so strong the birds were inedible. We wanted the sweet, nutty garlic fla...

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