Erin's Orange Roasted Chicken

Name: Erin's Orange Roasted Chicken
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 4-6 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1 (4 lb) whole roasting chickens; 1 cup orange juice; 1 orange; 2 garlic cloves; salt and pepper; 1/4 cup butter

Submitted by Miss Erin C.

"I really like citrus juice and chicken. It's a great pairing."

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Ready In:: 1hr 10mins
Ingredients:: 6
Serves:: 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

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!

Lennie
Very good! Tender! Yummy!!!!

My mother never tau
Very yummy!

Munchkin Mama
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.

Night Owl
i also put in a big sprig of fresh rosemary from the garden. flavor was really good-pefectly sweet &savory, and outstanding sauce! skin wasn't quite crispy enough for me, which i thought it would be due to all that butter, i will make it again though & just reserve some butter for brushing on top.

jude503