Recipe: Oven Festive Chicken With Oranges On RussianFood.com

Festive Chicken with Oranges (Oven)

FooDee 10/20/18

This chicken with oranges will become a real decoration and the main dish of any table. Perfect for holidays, especially winter ones. For example, you can cook chicken in the oven for the New Year, because the aroma of citrus fruits makes most of us associate with the New Year holidays. In any case, no matter what holiday or just for Sunday lunch or dinner you would not decide to cook chicken according to this recipe, it will always surprise you with its appearance, taste and juiciness.

Products Chicken (whole) - 1 pc. Orange - 1.5 pcs. Soy sauce - 7 tbsp. l. Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l. Garlic - 1 head Salt to taste (and depending on the salinity of the soy sauce)

Chicken baked in the oven according to this recipe, with such proportions of products, does not turn out too much, so to speak, "orange", but only with a slight touch. If you want a richer orange flavor and aroma, you can always add more zest and juice to your chicken marinade.

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How to cook chicken with oranges in the oven:

First, the chicken needs to be marinated. For the marinade, you need to grate or through a press, here as you prefer, chop all the garlic. Grate the zest of half an orange, gently, without touching the white shell, as it can give a bitterness that we don't need at all in this recipe.

Squeeze the juice of half an orange there.

Add soy sauce and salt. (We add salt to taste, soy sauce is also salty, so do not overdo it with salt. As they say, you can always add salt, but what to do if salted?:))

Add 2 tablespoons to the marinade. odorless refined vegetable oil.

The chicken itself is well washed, we remove the remnants of feathers, if any, and the coccygeal gland (it gives an unpleasant musky taste).

I really like to marinate the chicken in a hermetically sealed zip bag, nothing leaks anywhere, it is very convenient to distribute the marinade over the entire surface of the chicken. Leave the chicken to marinate in the refrigerator. I advise you to marinate for a long time, at least 24 hours, so that all the meat is well saturated with aromas.

Now you need to prepare the chicken for baking: remove all leftover garlic from the carcass, otherwise they will simply burn in the oven. As a result, the appearance will suffer from the charred pieces of garlic, and the taste, too, since they are bitter. You also need to dry the whole chicken well with paper towels - this way we get a crisper crust.

Cut the orange into thin slices and put it in the pocket between the meat and the chicken skin on both sides. In principle, the skin is easily separated from the meat; if necessary, you can always carefully trim it with a knife or kitchen scissors. You can put 2 slices of orange inside the chicken, you do not need to clog its belly, let the air circulate inside.

The tips of the wings can either be cut or wrapped in foil.

Bake the chicken with oranges in the oven at a temperature of 200-220 degrees (be guided by your oven) for 1-1.5 hours. I baked for 1 hour 20 minutes, the weight of the chicken was 2 kg. Readiness can be checked with a probe, the temperature inside the thickest part of the chicken, for example fillet, should be 65-70 degrees.

Thank you very much for your attention. Until new delicious recipes!