Roasted Chicken with Lemon-basil-garlic-butter rub

Today there was a great buy at the grocery store on whole chickens. Since I have been craving mashed potatoes all week, I decided to take the time to make a great roasted chicken comfort food dinner.

1 whole chicken
5 T. butter

2 T. chopped scallions
1 c. basil leaves, chopped
4 garlic cloves chopped
zest from one lemon
1/4 c. fresh parsley, chopped

Heat oven to 400. Cut excess fat away from chicken cavity. In a bowl mix butter, basil, lemon zest and garlic. Carefully pull skin away from chicken and rub butter mixture inside. It helps to rub it from the outside too as this can help cover more area. Put in roasting pan and bake for 20 minutes. Flip chicken over and roast for 2o more minutes. Remove from oven and sprinkle with parsley and squeeze lemon over top. Bake 2o more minutes. REmove from oven and allow to sit in pan for 15 minutes.