Citrus-and-Ginger-Roasted Chicken

Name: Citrus-and-Ginger-Roasted Chicken
Prep time: 1 h 50 min
Cook time: 1 h 50 min
Total time: 1 h 50 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 kilograms chicken; 3 Tbsps finely grated ginger; 3 Tbsps honey; 4 servings Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper; 3 lemons; 5 Tbsps extra-virgin olive oil; 2 oranges

You can never have too many main course recipes, so give Citrus-and-Ginger-Roasted Chicken a try. One portion of this dish contains around 97g of protein, 95g of fat, and a total of 1358 calories. This gluten free, dairy free, and primal recipe serves 4. 1 person found this recipe to be delicious and satisfying. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 1 hour and 50 minutes. Head to the store and pick up chicken, ginger, olive oil, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the kosher salt you could follow this main course with the Low Fat Crumbs Cake (Kosher-Dairy) as a dessert.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 40

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Oven

Finely grate the zest of 1 lemon and 1 orange. Quarter the zested lemon and orange. Set the chicken on a rack in a roasting pan. In a small bowl, combine the citrus zests with 1 tablespoon of the ginger. Generously season the cavity of the chicken with salt and pepper and all of the zest mixture. Stuff as many lemon and orange quarters inside the chicken as will fit.

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Salt And Pepper

Lemon Zest

Whole Chicken

Ginger

Orange

Lemon

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Roasting Pan

Bowl

Juice the remaining 2 lemons and 1 orange. In a small bowl, mix the citrus juice with the remaining 2 tablespoons of ginger, the olive oil and the honey.

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Olive Oil

Ginger

Lemon

Orange

Honey

Juice

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Bowl

Brush the chicken with the juice mixture and roast, basting with the juice every 20 minutes, for 1 1/4 hours, or until an instant-read thermometer inserted in the thickest part of a thigh registers 16

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Whole Chicken

Juice

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Kitchen Thermometer