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Home » How to Roast two chickens with herb butter

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How to Roast two chickens with herb butter

This is so easy and so good! How to roast two chickens with herb butter.

Sunday dinners here at Karins Kottage are usually filled with family and friends and I love it!

In order to feed a lot of people at one time, I like to figure out ways to cook the main dish quickly and easily.

Roasting is the answer!

The photo below is from one of our large family dinners in the dining room before we painted it.

It was blue and decorated with thrift store furniture until we painted it white added some shiplap to one wall and added a new planked top to the existing table.

Sunday family dinner - Karins Kottage

Roasting is one of my favorite ways to cook! It is easy, one pan and usually turns out perfect!

My best ever roasted pork loin is another delicious and easy recipe to try.

Prep your two chickens

Rinse and dry the chickens. I use a paper towel to dry the chickens inside and out.

Use olive oil and rub it all over each chicken.

Salt and pepper each chicken inside and out.

Make herb butter for chickens

herb butter for two chickens

Mix up 2-3 Tbsp of room temperature butter with 1 Tbsp or more of fresh thyme finely chopped.

Place the herb butter between skin and breast. Lift the skin away from the breast and rub the herb butter all around (watch video below).

Herb Butter as Gifts

I also make herb butter to give as gifts! I use lots of fresh herbs for one type and cranberries and orange peel for the other. See how I package my herb butter with a link to a free downloadable cute gift tag to give to friends during Christmas.

herb butter as Christmas gifts

Fill chicken cavities

To give a whole chicken or turkey some great flavor, slice a lemon in half and a 1/2 of an onion plus a fresh sprig of your favorite fresh herb and place in the cavity of each chicken.

Below is a turkey and I added lemon, onion, and sprigs of fresh thyme in the cavity. It infuses flavor to the bird as it roasts.

I love using this non stick calphalon roasting pan for turkey, chicken or large pork roasts. Cleanup is super easy and everything turns out perfectly!

Roast two chickens with herb butter

Roasting vegetables

Roughly cut up your favorite root veggies. I used 5-6 carrots, 7 or 8 large red potatoes, 2 small yams and 1 onion.

Drizzle with olive oil, chopped fresh thyme, and salt and pepper and mix it all up to coat the veggies.

Place vegetables into a roasting pan and lay chickens on top.

Roasting temperature

Roast in 425 degree oven for about an hour and half uncovered and bam dinner is ready!!

Every oven and size of chickens vary so make sure you chicken is completely cooked. When the juices run clear when you cut between a leg and thigh, it is completely cooked.

Tip- I did baste the chicken a few times using a little more olive oil and drippings from the bottom of pan.

Roast two chickens with herb butter and root vegetables, fall dinner, Sunday Dinner- Karins Kottage

Two herb butter roasted chickens with vegetables

This is what you get!

Golden colored chicken that is super moist and yummy roasted to perfection veggies.

You can see the herb butter under the skin of the chicken. It really adds some amazing flavor and keeps the breast meat moist.

Roast two chickens with herb butter and vegetables, Sunday Dinner-

Watch my quick overview video of how to put the herb butter underneath the skin of the chicken.

This video was originally done on periscope a few years ago. Remember Periscope?

I would love it if you subscribed to my Youtube channel too 🙂

Here is the link to the apple crostata recipe I talked about in the video.

More favorite main dish recipes

Easy tomato ricotta basil tart

Easy Savory Puffy Pancake

Skillet Summer Vegetable Lasagna

Lemon Thyme Chicken

Pin to your chicken recipe board for later

roast two chickens with herb butter

Fall Tablescapes Ideas

After you make a fabulous dinner you want to sit down to a pretty table right?

I do!

Here are some of my favorite fall and outdoor tablescapes that I think you will love!

Easy and very inexpensive! #forthewin

37 Fall tablescape ideas

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  1. Tracy says

    August 31, 2021 at 8:49 pm

    This looks delicious and has such a beautiful presentation. You might to speed check the title🤪.

    Reply
    • Karins Kottage says

      August 31, 2021 at 10:32 pm

      I am not sure what you mean by checking the title?

      Reply
  2. Cindy Rust says

    August 24, 2021 at 11:12 am

    Roasted Chicken is one of my fave meals! Yours looks amazing, What a great way to gather the family – just say Food and they come home!! Pinned!

    Reply
  3. Jayne says

    August 24, 2021 at 8:31 am

    This is such a great chicken dinner recipe to make for a crowd. You could also just make it to have plenty of leftovers for quick chicken salads during the week.

    Reply
  4. Jennifer Williams says

    August 23, 2021 at 7:31 pm

    Yummy! This recipe looks amazing.

    Reply
    • Alisa Wagler says

      September 1, 2021 at 12:59 am

      Yes it does. Happy cooking.
      Alisa

      Reply
  5. Marie says

    August 23, 2021 at 6:50 pm

    Such a great recipe for a cozy night in! Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
  6. Kristin salazar says

    August 23, 2021 at 4:09 pm

    This looks so delicious, thank you for sharing!

    Reply
  7. Janet says

    August 23, 2021 at 12:57 pm

    I love roasted chicken and I’ll bet the herb butter makes it even tastier.

    Reply
    • Karins Kottage says

      August 23, 2021 at 2:20 pm

      Oh yes the herb butter makes all the difference! Hope you try it out!

      Hugs,
      Karin

      Reply
  8. Olivia O'Hern says

    August 23, 2021 at 12:50 pm

    These chickens look absolutely delicious, can’t wait to try this recipe! Thanks for sharing

    Reply
    • Karins Kottage says

      August 23, 2021 at 2:19 pm

      Thank you Olivia! They really are so easy and so delicious! Let me know if you try it!

      Karin

      Reply
  9. Kippi Ohern says

    August 23, 2021 at 11:45 am

    I am pinning this easy chicken recipe to make this weekend.
    Hugs,
    Kippi

    Reply
    • Karins Kottage says

      August 23, 2021 at 12:04 pm

      Kippi let me know how you like it! It really turned out so good!

      Karin

      Reply
  10. Sara says

    August 23, 2021 at 11:44 am

    Great idea to roast 2 chickens! In our household, we’d save one for later – yum!

    Reply

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    October 27, 2020 at 7:39 pm

    […] the family is around. Feeding a crowd is fun and easy to do if you use an electric roasting pan. I made not one but two chickens at one time in mine with herb butter and they turned out amazing! It is making my mouth water thinking about […]

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    October 17, 2020 at 10:51 pm

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