Roast Chicken on Salt
This is an old family recipe for chicken on salt from Russia.
Ingredients
- 1 chicken, plucked and dressed
- 1 lemon, quartered
- 4 peeled cloves of garlic
- Several sprigs of fresh rosemary
- 1 kg salt
Ingredients for 2 servings (1.2 kg) · the original recipe
Method
- 1
Stuff the chicken with the quartered lemon, garlic and rosemary.
- 2
Bind the chicken ready for roasting.
- 3
Fill a baking tray with the salt and place the chicken on top.
Oven - 4
Roast for 90 minutes at 190°C. The flesh should be moist and the skin crisp.
Recipe from Wikibooks Cookbook, written by Wikibooks contributors. Used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; the ingredient list and method on this page are taken from that page and edited (its notes, tips and variations are not reproduced), and are available under the same licence. The macros, equipment tags and scaling are Ma Kitchen’s own and are not the source’s figures. Ma Kitchen is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wikibooks Cookbook. Copied on 2026-11-12.
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