Slow-cooked lemon chicken
Serves 8 people

Ingredients
1 apple - peeled, cored and quartered
1 stalk celery with leaves, chopped
1 (3 to 4 lbs.) whole chicken
salt to taste
ground black pepper to taste
1 onion, chopped
1/2 tsp. dried rosemary, crushed
1 lemon, zested and juiced
1 cup hot water
Instructions
- Rub salt and pepper into the skin of the chicken, and then place apple and celery inside the chicken.
- Place chicken in slow cooker. Sprinkle chopped onion, rosemary, and lemon juice and zest over chicken.
- Pour 1 cup hot water into the slow cooker.
- Cover, and cook on High for 1 hour. Switch to Low, and cook for 6 to 8 hours, basting several times.
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