Recipe for the day ~ Slow Cooker Lemon Pepper Chicken

Slow Cooker Lemon Pepper Chicken

(Courtesy of All Recipes)

Ingredients:

1 (2 to 3 pound) whole chicken, giblets removed

1/4 cup butter, softened

1 tspn lemon pepper

1 (1 inch thick) slice of lemon

2 cloves garlic, lightly crushed or more to taste

2 TBspn extra-virgin olive oil

2 tspns seasoned salt

1 tspn dried thyme

cracked black pepper to taste

Directions:

Rinse chicken, pat dry with paper towels, and use your fingers to loosen the skin over the breast and thighs

Stir butter and lemon pepper in a small bowl

Insert seasoned butter beneath the loosened skin using a teaspoon

Push the butter from the spoon using the skin

Place lemon slice and garlic cloves into the chicken cavity

Place chicken into the slow cooker

Rub skin with olive oil and sprinkle with salt, thyme and cracked black pepper over the chicken

Cook on HIGH for 3 hours

Reduce heat to LOW and cook until chicken is very tender 

Insert read-meat thermometer into the thickest part of a thigh, not touching the bone, reads should be at least 160 degrees after 2 -3 hours

IF desired, you can cook the chicken on the LOW setting for 6 to 8 hours 

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