Roast Chicken with Herbs Recipe – Sunset Magazine

Ingredients

• 1 cup kosher salt
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 lemon, quartered
• 2 tablespoons peppercorns, crushed (use a mortar and pestle or a clean coffee grinder)
• 2 bay leaves
• 2 medium onions, cut into wedges, divided
• 1 garlic head, halved crosswise
• 2 whole chickens, each about 4 1/2 lbs.
• 1 medium carrot, diagonally sliced
• 1 celery stalk, diagonally sliced
• 10 small sprigs thyme (about 6 in. long)
• 4 sprigs sage
• 10 sprigs rosemary (about 6 in. long)
• 2 tablespoons olive oil