Slow Cooker Roast Chicken is the juiciest, most forgiving and easiest whole chicken recipe I know.

This roast chicken recipe can be slow cookedORpressure cooked.

you’re able to serve up a Sunday Roast Chicken dinner any day of the week!

Overhead photo of Slow Cooker Roast Chicken (whole chicken) on a serving platter with lemon wedges and thyme, ready to be served

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No false promises!This crock pot whole chicken recipe is trulyone of my gold nugget recipes.

Plus, the Lemon Sauce is effortless just add cornflour/cornstarch into the slow cooker juices.

!Watch the video.

Lemon Sauce being poured over Slow Cooker Roast Chicken

Justloosen the skin using a dessert spoon(hugs the curves, avoids piercing skin).

Then spoon the paste under the skin.

Roughly spread the paste using your hands or the spoon on the surface of the skin.

Ingredients in Lemon Garlic Slow Cooker Roast Chicken

Doesnt need to be perfect, the paste will slide and naturally spread as it cooks.

Pop the used lemon inside the chicken.

This keeps the underside of the chicken from being submerged in liquid which makes it cook faster.

How to make a whole chicken in a slow cooker

Slow cookfor 5 hours on low or 3 hours on high.

How long does a whole chicken take in the slow cooker?

A 2kg/4lb whole chicken will take 5 hours on low, or 3 hours on high.

Slow Cooker Roast Chicken carved, ready to be served

This will be a juicy andcarvable,chicken like a traditional ovenRoast Chicken.

Pressure Cooker / Instant Pot Option!

Just add 1/2 cup of water and pressure cook for 24 minutes on high.

How to make Lemon Sauce for Slow Cooker Roast Chicken

Let it depressurise naturally for 10 minutes then release the valve.

So I reverted to just Lemon Sauce!

Youll love how straight forward this is compared to usual gravies.

Overhead photo of Slow Cooker Roast Chicken (whole chicken) on a serving platter with lemon wedges, ready to be served

No messing around with oily pans and cooking flour and straining.

Just add cornstarch / cornflour then simmer until thickened.

Oh the possibilities!!!

Slow Cooker Whole Roast Chicken - Lemon Garlic

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Ive kept it straightforward because its aneveryday roast chicken recipe.

OK, so thats it from me!

Updated January 2019 recipe improved, everything completely rewritten, new photos, new video.

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