Scrumptious Homemade Rotisserie Style Chicken (2024)

Author: Donna | Published: Feb 7, 2018 |

Learn how to make a Homemade Rotisserie-Style Chicken right in your own oven. The absolute perfect alternative to store-bought rotisserie chickens with ALL of that great flavor. This homemade version is much healthier than store-bought and super easy to put together.

Homemade Rotisserie Chicken

There is a reason thisHomemade Rotisserie-Style Chicken has been the most popular recipe on Whole Food Belliesfor about two years running.

If you haven't tried it yet, thenget excited, because this is all kinds of delicious!

Ok, so you have to cook it for around 3 hours....it is definitely not a quick meal.

But really, if you are making a roast chicken, youaren't anticipating a quick meal anyway.

It usually takes an hour or so anyway, but trust me, this one is worth the extra time.

It is so easy, and it tastes so much better than the store-bought version. Plus you just don't know how long that store-made chicken has been sitting under those heat lamps, or if someone has carried it around the store for a while, changed their mind, and then popped it back onto the shelf.

Gross.

How To Make Rotisserie Chicken At Home.

This is so easy, it's simply a matter of:

• Filling the cavity with garlic and lemon;
• Rubbing some oil and spices underneath the skin (this part gives you the most flavorsome crispy skin);
• Rubbing some oil and spices on the outside of the chicken;
• Throwing it all in the oven and forgetting about it until the timer goes off!

See?

Told Ya!

Not too much work involved at all.

Can This Be Prepped Ahead Of Time?

Definitely!

In fact, dressing the chicken with the herbs and spices and trussing it up the night before lets the flavors really sink in there.

This way you just have to pop it in the oven on the day you want to eat it.

Perfect.

Organic Or Non-Organic Chicken?

I don't buy everything organic.

I generally stick to the dirty dozen (read more about it here) which is basically those fruit and veggies containing the most pesticide residue.

Then my dairy and poultry.

There are usually a few other items, but these ones will always be organic in my cart.

I justify the extra expense by using the chicken for 2 purposes.

First, we enjoy it as a rotisserie chicken that can be used in LOTS of meals, and then I use the carcass to make the most amazing homemade chicken stock.

How To Make Homemade Chicken Stock

Making homemade chicken stock with the leftover chicken carcass is so easy, you simply:

• Add the chicken carcass and skin (if you don't eat it) to a big pot, a slow cooker or a pressure cooker;
• Add 8 cups of water, a couple of bay leaves, some cloves of garlic, salt and pepper;
• Simmer on the stovetop for 1.5-2 hours, in a slow cooker for 4 hours on high or 8 hours on low, or in the pressure cooker for 45 minutes;
• Cool, strain, and store in an airtight container in the fridge until you are ready to use it.

Do yourself a favor, next weekend head to thelocal Farmer's Market, or wherever you get your chickenfrom, grab a good one and make this homemade rotisserie chicken. For a family of four, it fed us two dinners, and lunch, and also made 8 cups of homemade chicken stock.

What To Do With Leftover Rotisserie Chicken

Leftover rotisserie chicken is fantastic in sandwiches or wraps.

It goes great thrown in a salad for lunch the next day and even better chopped up and thrown in some soup.

If you make up your own stock then make a chicken noodle soup with that. Yum.

If you need some recipes to use up that leftover homemade rotisserie chicken, then check these out:

• Bruschetta Chicken Zucchini Spaghetti from West Via Midwest;
• Leftover Light Chicken Salad from the Healthy Home Cook;
• Leftover Turkey Gumbo (but sub in rotisserie chicken) from Eating Richly.

Happy Eating

xx

Recipe

I love this served up with some Lightened-UpCreamy Pasta SaladorMaple Roasted Small Potatoes and a fresh salad, like this Zesty Tomato and Nectarine Salad.