Chicken Roasted in a Crispy Crust with Ginger and Oranges
⏳ Time
1 hour 40 minutes
🥕 Ingredients
8
🍽️ Servings
4
Description
Serve the cooked chicken with roasted oranges, drizzled with the pan juices. Instead of one whole chicken, you can roast four Cornish hens with this recipe. The term ‘Cornish hen’ refers to three-hundred-gram birds, which are valued not only for their weight but also for their very tender and low-fat meat, considered to be diet-friendly. Enjoy your meal!
Ingredients
- Poultry - 1 piece
- Honey - 4 spoons
- Oranges - 2 pieces
- Grated Ginger Root - 1.4 oz
- Vegetable Oil - 3 spoons
- Spices - to taste
- Coarse Salt - to taste
- Red Long Chili Peppers - to taste
Step by Step guide
Step 1
Cut a quarter from one orange and set it aside. Peel the remaining part and the whole second orange, making sure to remove all the white bitter pith. Slice them into rounds about half a centimeter thick.
Step 2
Thoroughly pat the chicken dry (you can use paper towels for this) and rub it all over with vegetable oil, coarse salt, red pepper, and black pepper.
Step 3
Preheat the oven to 392°F. Arrange a single layer of orange slices at the bottom of a small deep baking dish or tray. Place the chicken breast-side down on top of the oranges. Bake in the oven for forty minutes.
Step 4
Squeeze the juice from the remaining quarter of the orange into a small deep bowl. If the oranges are soft enough, you can do this by hand, then remove the seeds from the bowl.
Step 5
Peel the ginger and grate it. Mix the orange juice with the ginger, four tablespoons of honey, and add spices to taste — you can sprinkle in a pinch of black and red pepper. Stir well.
Step 6
Remove the chicken from the oven, carefully turn it breast-side up, and thoroughly brush it with the ginger-orange mixture. It's easiest to do this with a special culinary brush.
Step 7
Return the baking tray with the chicken to the oven and roast for about another hour, basting the chicken with the juices from the tray periodically; the more often you do this, the quicker a crust will form—and the juicier the meat will be underneath.
Step 8
The cooked chicken with a beautiful golden crust can be served whole on the table, allowed to cool slightly, carved into portions, and served alongside roasted oranges, drizzled with the pan juices.
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