Authentic Chinese Five Spice Roast Chicken - cooking recipe

Ingredients

five-spice salt (recipe to follow)
4 lbs roasting chickens
1 -2 green onion, sliced
plum sauce

Preparation

To make five-spice salt: Combine 5 tablespoons salt with 1 tablespoon five-spice seasoning. Place five spice salt in a dry skillet. Cook & stir over low heat 3-4 minutes.
Rub salt mixture (1 teaspoon five spice salt per lb. of chicken) on inside and outside of chicken. Cover and refrigerate seasoned chicken for 4 hours or overnight.
Preheat oven to 500 F.
Insert green onions into chicken cavity.
Place chicken, breast side down, on a rack sprayed with nonstick cooking spray in a shallow roasting pan.
Roast chicken for 35 minutes. Turn chicken over and continue roasting another 20-25 minutes or until chicken tests done. (Chicken skin should be crisp).
Serve slices of chicken hot or chilled with plum sauce.