Roast Chicken with Garlic and Herbs

Preheat oven to 400 F/200 C.

Roughly chop garlic, put it into a bowl and crush it together with the salt to make a paste. Roughly chop herbs and add them into the garlic mixture. Crush to combine.

Gently ease the skin away from the meat over the chicken breasts from the neck end (not from the cavity). Take some of the garlic-herb mixture and push it in under the skin, over the breast, on each side, and ease it over as much of the breast as possible by rubbing from the outside once you have put the mixture in as best you can.

Put the lemon half into the cavity of the bird, then place it in a roasting pan. Dry the skin and sprinkle with salt and pepper then drizzle a little olive oil over it and rub it in. Roast for 1 hour and 15 minutes.