Baked Chicken or Cornish Hen

By rwrigley

Great for Sunday dinner. Easy and delicious.

Prep time: 20 minutes
Cook time: 2-3 hours

Ingredients

• 1 whole chicken or hen
• 2 red potatoes, cubed in large chunks (skin on)
• 3 carrots, peeled & chopped in large chunks (or a small bag of baby carrots)
• 2 TBS Italian dressing
• 1 oven roasting bag

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350. Rinse chicken and remove giblets. Brush chicken skin with Italian dressing. Place in oven bag and then in large casserole/roasting dish. Put potatoes and carrots in bag around chicken.

Bake for 2-3 hours or until done, depending on size of chicken (approximately 20 minutes per pound).

After carving cooked chicken, boil the carcass for 2-3 hours to make chicken stock.