Rosemary Roasted Chicken - 1st time roasting chicken

Seems like there is a lot of "first" for me :) That's because I've only been actively cooking when my son started to eat solid food. So, for a true amateur like myself, I never imagined that I would be able to roast a chicken cos neither my mum nor my mother in law has done it before!

And that my friend would mean that if I can do it, anyone can :)

So, for my 1st attempt to roast a chicken and prepare a 3-course western dinner, I'm delighted to have purchased an electric oven just over 6 months ago which has been used pretty efficiently thus far. I knew nuts about purchasing an electric oven. So, I'm grateful for my hubby's input when we went shopping for one. Not that he's any better than me *winks* We finally decided on a Faber Electric Oven Model No. FEO40. Good size with a good list of components available and definitely user-friendly.

I have to admit I was a little jittery during my 1st attempt to roast one whole chicken and complement it with a garlic toast recipe I learnt online but I soon discovered how easy it was and got all excited to try it again! Special thanks to Pek Kuan for the recipe :)

Ingredients
* 1 chicken, trimmed, washed, patted dry
* 3 large onions quartered
* 4-5 potatoes quartered
* 2 carrots cube into cubes

Marinate ingredients (A)
* 1/2 bowl of olive oil (or slightly less)
* 1/4 bowl of chopped garlic
* 1/8 bowl of rosemary
Note - Bowl measurement is based on the small Chinese soup bowl

Preparation
* Mariante chicken with 1 tbsp of salt and marinate (A) for at least 1 hour. Make sure marinate is applied thoroughly

Baking instructions
1 Preheat oven to 180 degress
2 Place chicken on a rack in a large baking pan. Marinate the rest of the ingredients in the leftover of mariante (A) and sprinkle some salt for taste. Place the rest of the ingredients on a rack right under the chicken.
3 Bake for 45 mins to 1 hr (till chicken is cooked)