Wash chicken. Then line a pan with tinfoil. Put the chicken in the pan. Prepare the garlic by unpeeling all of the cloves
Crush 3-4 cloves and the rest of them just keep as whole. Cut up one lemon. Stuff cavity of chicken with some lemon the whole garlic cloves, basil, bay leaves, Thyme. Gently pull the skin from the chicken allowing you to place garlic and lemon under the skin. Put some olive oil on chicken along with all spices front and back. Rub the chicken making sure spices are dispersed. Add approx a cup of water in the pan.