Orange Roasted Chicken
Make orange roasted chicken at home in three easy steps! Make your own rub and sauce to have a perfectly golden roasted chicken that can be on the table in one hour!
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 1 hr
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2 whole chickens
- 1 big onion (cut into chunks)
- 2 carrots (cut into pieces)
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 1/2 tsp dried thyme
- 1 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
- 1 tbsp bloomed saffron
- 1/2 tbsp honey
- 1 tsp grated fresh ginger or 1/2 tsp ginger powder
- Fresh parsley
- 2-3 Small red peppers
Instructions
- 1
Make sure chickens are clean and dry.
- 2
Preheat the oven to 400 F / 204 C.
- 3
Lightly coat an oven safe pan with non stick spray.
- 4
Place onion and carrots at the bottom of the pan.
- 5
Make the spice rub by mixing all the spice rub ingredients in a bowl.
- 6
Using your hands, rub the spice on and under the skin, try not to rip the skin.
- 7
Place the chickens on top of veggies in the pan and put the pan in the oven.
- 8
Make the sauce by mixing all the sauce ingredients in a separate bowl.
- 9
Every 20 minutes, brush sauce on the chickens.
- 10
Check after one hours to see if the chicken is fully cooked. Add the peppers and turn the broil on for 3-4 minutes.
- 11
Top with parsley and serve warm.