Erin's Orange Roasted Chicken
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Serves:
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4-6
ingredients
- 1 (4 lb) whole roasting chickens
- 1 cup orange juice
- 1 orange
- 2 garlic cloves
- salt and pepper
- 1⁄4 cup butter
directions
- Clean chicken and pat dry.
- Rub skin with half of 1 orange.
- Stuff cavity of chicken with 2 orange halves, garlic cloves and the butter.
- Roast at 350F for 22 minutes for each pound.
- Make sauce by adding orange juice to the pan drippings and reducing by half.
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Reviews
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Great flavour! I roasted the chicken covered for the first half of cooking time, then added 1 tbsp olive oil to the orange juice and poured that into the pan for the last half of cooking time; cooked it uncovered, basting like mad. When done, and while the chicken rested, I put the pan with the drippings on the stove and boiled it, whisking up the brown bits, until reduced to a syrupy consistency. Fabulous! I didn't even need to add salt or pepper to the sauce! Erin, this recipe is a real keeper; very easy and very delicious!
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Very good! I had never tried orange with chicken before & was fearful it would have too much orange flavour. My chicken had a small cavity so I used 2-1/4 pieces of an orange to stuff & upped the garlic. For the sauce I used about 1/2 cup orange juice. It was moist & delicious! Next time I will stuff the full 2-1/2 pieces in the cavity & use the full 1 cup of orange juice. The fresh O.J. was milder than I thought it would be. We enjoyed this, thanks.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Miss Erin C.
Minneapolis, Missouri
Mom to 4 boys, city dweller, eater, craft beer enthusiast, original Recipezaar member.