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45 next-level roast chicken recipes

From sticky, finger-licking marinades to new-school stuffings (hello haloumi!) here are our favourite roast chook recipes. Short on time? Here's how to butterfly a chicken for a quicker cook.

45 recipes
Adam Liaw's garlic butter roast chicken

Garlic butter roast chicken

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Turning the chicken upside down makes for tender meat.

Roast chicken and garlic, lemon and parsley salad

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Andrew McConnell
Serve this salt-roasted chicken with steamed rice.
EASY

Salt-roasted chicken with turmeric and ginger

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Butterflied roast chicken with herb and haloumi stuffing.

Roast chicken with haloumi stuffing, mint and pomegranate

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Roast chicken inspired by the subcontinent.

Panch phoran spiced roast chicken with coconut stuffing and mint sambal

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Serve this roast chicken and rice with salad greens, yoghurt and your favourite spicy sauce.

Roast chicken on baked rice with tomato, cumin and bay leaves

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
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Roast chicken for summer.

Herb butter roast chicken with summer vegetables recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Rachel Khoo
Please don't judge the potato chips, come along for the ride.

Piri piri butterflied chicken and chips

  • Katrina Meynink
A little bit of thick, caramelised sugar is one of the most decadent things in food.

Sticky ginger roast chicken recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Roast chicken stuffed with spring vegies.

Roast chicken stuffed with spring vegies

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Butterflied chicken with ricotta, garlic and spice stuffing.

Butterflied roast chicken with ricotta stuffing

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Adam Liaw's classic roast chicken.

Secret ingredient roast chicken with buttered veg

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Chicken, bacon and potatoes - tick, tick, tick.

Butterflied roast chicken with bacon on potatoes

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's Tex-Mex cumin and lime roast chicken.

Cumin and lime roast chicken recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Neil Perry's sticky roast chicken.

Chicken recipe: Sticky roast chicken with tomato glaze

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
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Chicken roasted on kimchi and potatoes.

Chicken roasted on kimchi and potatoes

  • 1-2 hrs
Roast chicken with cider vinegar, leeks and hazelnuts.

Roast chicken with baby leeks and hazelnuts

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
New look roast chook.

Mumma Kwong's roast chicken

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Kylie Kwong
Hoi sin chicken

Hoisin roast chicken with Sichuan salt

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Brigitte Hafner
Roast tarragon chicken with lemon, caper and oliver salad.

Roast tarragon chicken with lemon, caper and olive salad

  • 1-2 hrs
Roast chicken.
EASY

Jill Dupleix's 'great roast chicken'

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
Greek-ish roast chicken dolloped with warm feta dressing.

Roast chicken with leeks, olives and hot feta dressing

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Classic roast chicken with bread and butter stuffing.

Classic roast chicken with bread and butter stuffing

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Spice up your regular roast chicken.

Spiced chicken with fennel and cauliflower cream

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
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Roast Chicken for Holly and Lisa

Stephanie Alexander's kid-friendly roast chicken

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Stephanie Alexander
Yoghurt roast chicken.

Garlicky, Greek yoghurt roast chicken

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
contract photographer Photograph by William Meppem Stylist credit is Hannah Meppem and food prep is Nick Banbury Pimp Your Chook Flat-roast chicken with pickled grapes and polenta

Flat-roast chicken with pickled grapes and polenta

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Roast chicken with lemon, herbs and creme fraiche.

Roast chicken with lemon, herbs and creme fraiche

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Thyme, oregano and citrus chicken.

Thyme, oregano and citrus chicken

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Roast chicken with chipotle-lentil sauce.

Butterflied roast chicken with chipotle-lentil sauce

  • 2 hrs +
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Roast chicken with fennel and chilli salt, potatoes and fennel

  • 1-2 hrs
Mustard and tarragon roasted chicken

Mustard and tarragon roast chicken

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Brigitte Hafner
Spicy fried shallots make this roast chicken even better.
EASY

Turmeric roasted chicken with spicy fried shallots

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Alison Roman
Add a Korean kick to roast chicken (and salad).

Gochujang roast chicken and rice salad

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Slow-roasted chicken with anchovy, lemon and capers.
EASY

Slow-roasted chicken with anchovy, lemon and capers

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
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Roast chicken with lemon, honey, rosemary, zucchini and potatoes

  • 1-2 hrs

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