Roast Chicken with Sage and Squash Salad

Ingredients

• Chicken

  • 1/3 cup (75 g) butter, softened
  • 3 tbsp sage leaves, finely chopped, plus a few whole leaves (see note)
  • 1 grain-fed chicken, about 5 1/2 lb (2.5 kg)
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • 1/2 lemon
  • 1 onion, quartered
  • 4 garlic cloves, peeled
  • 1 butternut squash, about 2.2 lb (1.1 kg), peeled, halved lengthwise, seeded and cut into slices 1/4 inch (5 mm) thick

• Salad

  • 1 small radicchio, cored, leaves torn
  • 1 recipe fried shallots (see note)
  • 1/4 cup (40 g) roasted pumpkin seeds, coarsely chopped
  • 1/2 lemon, juiced
  • Parmesan cheese shavings, to taste