Dutch Oven Orange Roast Chicken Food

ORANGE HONEY GARLIC ROASTED CHICKEN

Steps:

• First clean your chicken and remove excess fat that. Place half an orange and thyme inside the chest. Tie the legs of roasted chicken together with string. Set aside
• Cut another oranges into quarters. Squeeze the juice into a bowl but keep the oranges for later. (or you can use juice from bottled orange juice, just me sure to have extra orange - quartered and sliced for cooking)
• Combine your juice, olive, oil, garlic, and honey, balsamic vinegar, lemon juice, onion salt, pinch of salt/pepper in one small bowl. Mix well.
• Before you add your chicken to the pan, make sure it's hot enough and well oiled to prevent skin from sticking. (See Notes)
• Place Chicken in dutch oven on breast side down. Pour juice and garlic and honey mixture over the chicken, coating it nicely and evenly around the chicken
• Place oranges around chicken in the dutch oven.
• Cook on medium heat covered for 25 minutes on stove.
• While Chicken is on stove, Preheat oven to 450F for later use.
• After 25 minutes on stove, flip the chicken over, skin side/breast up. Coat the sauce from the pan on top of the breast and around thighs. Add a few garnishes of thyme and orange slices on top of the breast.
• Transfer the dutch oven pot with chicken into the oven uncovered and cook for another 25-27 minutes or until cooked through and skin is crispy. 165F. Check chicken after 10 minutes in oven, just to be safe.
• Skin should be crispy on top.
• Remove and spoon any extra juice from pot and coat it again over chicken.
• Serve with veggies or salad!

DUTCH OVEN ORANGE ROASTED CHICKEN

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 500 degrees while you're cleaning bird and prepping ingredients.
• Place a small rack in the bottom of a large dutch oven.
• Whisk the canola oil and soy sauce in a small bowl, Mix rub seasonings in a bag.
• Loosen the skin on the chicken with your hands and paint the canola/soy mixture UNDER the skin and in the cavity.
• Apply dry rub under skin and in cavity, it will stick very well to the soy/oil mix.
• put two onion quarters and two orange slices in the cavity.
• Use your hands to rub the last TB of oil all over the bird, Place bird breast side down in the dutch oven, place remaining orange slices& onion quarters around bird.
• You can toss in the neck and giblets in there too.
• Put the lid on the dutch oven and bake for 50 mins covered, Remove cover and bake for another 15-20 mins, until internal temp reaches 170 degrees the thickest part of the thigh.
• Allow to sit, uncovered for 10 mins before serving.
• The pan drippings make for an outstanding sauce, just deglaze with a bit more orange juice or some white wine, allow to thicken, season, strain and serve.

ROASTED ORANGE CHICKEN

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 degrees.
• Squeeze 1/4 cup juice from 2 to 3 tangerines into a small bowl; reserve the spent peels. Cut the remaining tangerines into wedges with their peels intact, and set aside. Add the brown sugar, soy sauce, vinegar and cayenne to the tangerine juice and whisk until the sugar dissolves.
• Generously season the chicken inside and out with salt and pepper. Tuck the wingtips behind the body. Stuff the tangerine peels and 6 ginger slices into the cavity, then tie the legs together using kitchen twine. Place in a large ovenproof skillet, and scatter the tangerine wedges and remaining 2 slices ginger around the chicken.
• Slowly pour the juice mixture all over the chicken, then slide the skillet into the oven. Roast for 30 minutes.
• Using a large spoon or baster, quickly and carefully coat the chicken with the pan sauce. Continue roasting, basting every 10 minutes, until the chicken is browned and cooked through, 20 to 30 minutes longer. An instant-read thermometer inserted in the thickest part of the breast should register 155 degrees and, in the leg, 170 degrees. The chicken will continue to cook while it rests.
• Transfer the chicken to a cutting board and let rest for about 5 minutes. If the pan sauce isn't already syrupy, bring it to a boil over medium-high heat on the stovetop. Be sure to wear oven mitts or use a kitchen towel to hold the skillet (the handle is hot). Cook, stirring occasionally, until the bubbles grow larger and paler brown, and the sauce is the consistency of syrup, about 5 minutes. Discard the ginger.
• Serve the chicken whole or carved with the glaze poured all over the meat. Arrange the tangerine wedges from the pan around the bird. You can eat them, if you'd like.