Roast Chicken with Honey Rosemary Plums

Name: Roast Chicken with Honey Rosemary Plums
Prep time: 1 h 30 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 8 sprigs fresh rosemary; 237 milliliters honey; 1 teaspoon kosher salt, or to taste; 4 plums, halved and pitted; 28 grams unsalted butter; 1 kilograms whole chicken

Roast Chicken with Honey Rosemary Plums is a gluten free and primal main course. This recipe serves 4. One serving contains 690 calories, 31g of protein, and 31g of fat. If you have chicken, honey, kosher salt, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the honey you could follow this main course with the Honey Gingerbread as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Instructions

Combine the honey and half of the rosemary sprigs in a small saucepan set over low heat. Warm the honey, stirring often for 15 to 20 minutes, making sure the honey does not boil or scorch.

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Rosemary

Honey

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Sauce Pan

Remove from the heat and allow the honey to cool. Strain out the herbs, then bottle the honey and label it as the recipe makes more than you will need for this recipe. Toss plum halves with ¼ cup of the rosemary honey in a large bowl. Set aside.Prep the chicken: Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Season chicken liberally with salt. Stuff cavity with 2 of the remaining rosemary sprigs. Tie legs together with kitchen twine.

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Rosemary

Whole Chicken

Herbs

Honey

Plum

Salt

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Kitchen Twine

Bowl

Oven

Place chicken, breast side up, in a shallow roasting pan or tray.

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Whole Chicken

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Roasting Pan

Place the chicken in the preheated oven and roast for for 30 minutes.

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Whole Chicken

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Oven

Remove from oven, and scatter the plums around chicken cut side up, dotting each one with butter. Return to oven, and roast for 20 to 30 minutes more, until an instant-read thermometer inserted into thickest part of the thigh reads 165 degrees.

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Whole Chicken

Butter