Another Crockpot Chicken Recipe

Another lazy weekend calls for another lazy (and easy) recipe. And like I said before, what's easier than putting food into a crockpot and turning it on?

Ingredients:
-One whole free-range chicken
-2 sweet onions, quartered
-3 stalks of celery, cut into thirds.
-baby carrots (as much as you want)
-6 cloves of garlic, chopped
-1 lemon
-paprika, to taste
-salt & pepper, to taste
-3 bay leaves
-2 tbsp pasteurized organic butter
-2 tbsp olive oil
-3 springs of rosemary

Prep:

1. Cut your veggies. 

 2. Wash chicken, remove giblets, and pat the chicken dry with paper towels. Season your whole chicken with black pepper and sea salt, inside and out. 

 3. Cut a lemon in half and squeeze the juices from both slices on both sides of the chicken.

4. Stuff the chicken with the lemon slices and your bay leaves.

 5. Place your chicken in the crockpot, and surround the chicken with the veggies.

 6. Sprinkle your desired amount of paprika. You can add more pepper and sea salt if you want.

 Optional: Since your chicken will be in the slowcooker, it won't have that brown skin look. So to brown it a little, I put it in the oven for 10 minutes under 500 degrees. Totally optional though. 

 While the chicken is in the oven, throw your garlic, rosemary, olive oil and butter together in a separate bowl. Mix. 

 Once the chicken is out of the oven, pour your "sauce" all over the chicken. There is no need to add any other liquids since the chicken will cook in its own juices. 

 We cooked it on High for 4 hours but it all depends on when you want to eat. Here is what it looks like fully cooked and ready to be served. Yummy!

Hope you guys enjoy!

Hubby says it's a little bland for his tastebuds but I really enjoyed it. So did baby Jason :)

Looking forward to sharing more easy recipes in the near future!