Apple Bacon Chicken

Recently my mom and sister bought me a whole chicken, okay they actually bought me four of them on the BOGO sale.... I was thinking to myself, what in the world am I going to do with 4 WHOLE CHICKENS!? The last time I ate white meat from a chicken I had to down water and almost choked it was so dry, this is when I started thinking of a way to make this the juiciest chicken I have ever had....

So I started creating my dinner in my head and this is what I got! 

One whole 4-5 pound chicken

5-6 slices of bacon

2 lemon slices 

1 Medium apple

half a yellow onion

1 tsp. Italian seasoning

1 tbs. olive oil

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. pepper

Preheat oven to 400*

Mix olive oil, salt, pepper and Italian seasoning together.

Remove gizzards and place chicken on roasting pan, pull skin up from meat and spread olive oil spread in between skin and meat. Stuff chicken with slices of apples, onion, and wrap one wedge of apple in bacon.

Lay remaining pieces of bacon on top of chicken.

Bake at 400* for 1 1/2 hours or until chicken reaches 160*. 

Remove bacon, apple and onion before serving.

Now I served my chicken with steamed veggies, rice pilaf and garlic asiago cheese bread. BUT YOU can serve it with anything you like, maybe you are a huge potato person (I do looove me some potatoes) or you like noodles, whichever you prefer :)

Enjoy :)