Crispy Lemon and Herb Butter Chicken

from IKEA.com

Ingredients

1 fresh chicken
1 bunch each of fresh basil, flat parsley, fresh rosemary
2 lemons
2 cloves garlic
5 1/4 oz room temperature butter
3 TBS olive oil (Im sure coconut oil would work great)
salt and pepper

Put the room temperature butter in a mixing bowl and chop all the herbs (putting them into the bowl). Grate the lemon zest into the bowl with the butter but do not grate any of the bitter white part. also grate in the garlic and then squeeze the lemon juice into the bowl and mix it all together.

Carefully loosen the skin from the chicken by placing 2 fingers under it starting from the back. Spread the butter evenly between the chicken skin and meat. THis really makes the chicken taste wonderful!

Oil and season the chicken all over with the salt and pepper. Cook in the oven for 45 minutes on 450 degrees.

IKEA.com sells some really nice tools to help with this recipe like fish/poultry shears to help divide up the chicken into portions and herb choppers

* I like to do this recipe in the same manner for turkey, only I use this premix of herbs by McCormick. Fresh is always better, but this is really good!