Chicken Skewers serves with peanut butter satay sauce is probably one of my most favourite treats at Thai restaurants. I’m kind of drooling just thinking about it. So I thought, why not roast a whole chicken and serve it up with some homemade peanut butter sauce? Why not indeed.
Whole Chickens are usually pretty inexpensive compared to their butchered counterparts so this makes for a pretty thrifty family meal. You can feed your whole family of 4 for two nights in a row for the cost of a single plate at a thai restaurant. I’d say that is a win!
Roasted Chicken with Peanut Sauce
Ingredients:
1 whole chicken
Salt & pepper (To Taste)
3-4 Sprigs fresh rosemary
1 lemon, halved
1 Bulb garlic, broken down into cloves and peeled
Butter, Olive Oil or Coconut Oil
For the Peanut Sauce:
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 Cup coconut milk
1 Tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp cayenne pepper
3 Tbsp lime juice
Directions:
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
Place chicken in a roasting or glass pan.
Salt and pepper inside of chicken and stuff with rosemary, lemon and garlic.
Cook for an hour and a half, basting with pan juices halfway through cooking.
While the chicken is roasting, prepare the sauce by whisking together sauce ingredients in a medium sized bowl.
Serve with Peanut Sauce.
Roasted Chicken with Peanut Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 whole chicken
- Salt & pepper, To Taste
- 3-4 Sprigs fresh rosemary
- 1 lemon, halved
- 1 Bulb garlic, broken down into cloves and peeled
- Butter, Olive Oil or Coconut Oil
- For the Peanut Sauce:
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1/2 Cup coconut milk
- 1 Tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp cayenne pepper
- 3 Tbsp lime juice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
- Place chicken in a roasting or glass pan.
- Salt and pepper inside of chicken and stuff with rosemary, lemon and garlic.
- Season the outside of the chicken well with salt and pepper then rub oil or better all over the outside.
- Cook for an hour and a half, basting with pan juices halfway through cooking.
- While the chicken is roasting, prepare the sauce by whisking together sauce ingredients in a medium sized bowl.
- Once cooked, take the chicken out of the oven and transfer to a board to rest for 15 minutes covered with a layer of tinfoil.
- Serve with Peanut Sauce.
Nutrition Information:
Serving Size:
1 gramsAmount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g
Liz Lampman is a coffee-fuelled Mom of 2 girls and lives in Hamilton, Ontario. She enjoys cooking and baking, food photography, and reading.
Michael Gates
Saturday 6th of March 2021
looks very good. I just put a chicken in the oven with peanut butter, thyme, garlic and lime inside, then Googled to see if anyone else had roasted chicken with a peanut themes!
Debbie White Beattie
Saturday 23rd of September 2017
I've never seen a recipe like this but from the pictures and the ingredients, I know it would be delicious
Amanda @ The Anti Mom Blog
Friday 8th of August 2014
can not wait to try chicken with this peanut sauce! always looking for a good one to try, too! happy to have found you via re-treat link up - looking forward to reading more and connecting - have a great weekend and thanks for the recipe! :)