Lemon Garlic Slow Cooker Roast Chicken

Serves 5 · via recipetineats.com

Ingredients

• / 4 lb whole chicken )
• dried thyme
• dried parsley
• dried oregano
• salt
• black pepper
• olive oil
• garlic cloves
• lemon
• cornflour/cornstarch mixed with 1 tbsp water
• extra lemon

Method

1. Rub – Mix Rub ingredients. should be fairly thick and sludgy. Adjust with extra oil if too thick.
2. Loosen Skin: Use upside spoon to loosen skin of chicken (see video). Spoon most of the Rub under the skin, leaving about 1 tbsp mostly oil for the skin. Use hands or spoon on skin to spread the paste - doesn't need to be perfect.
3. Stuff used lemon inside the chicken. 
4. Put rack inside slow cooker (Note 3), place chicken on top. Spread with remaining sludge, sprinkle with a pinch of salt and pepper.
5. Slow cook 5 hours on low or 3 hours on high, or until juices run clear or internal temperature is 75C / 165F using a meat thermometer. (Note 4 for other cook methods)
6. Brown skin: Remove chicken from slow cooker, drizzle with a bit of extra oil. Grill/broil on medium high for 5 to 10 minutes to brown the skin (~25cm /10" from heat source). Or oven 240C/450F for 10 min.
7. Spoon over pan juices, then serve with Lemon Sauce! (No need to rest chicken)
8. Pour all slow cooker liquid into a saucepan, add cornflour / water mixture. Mix.
9. Bring to simmer over medium high and cook until liquid thickens to thin syrup (depends how much liquid you have, usually 3 min or so). Adjust salt and pepper to taste, add more lemon if desired (the extra lemon). Pour into jug.