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Steps to Make Award-winning Easy Roasted Orange Chicken

 ·  ☕ 4 min read  ·  ✍️ Delia Williams
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Easy Roasted Orange Chicken

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, easy roasted orange chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have easy roasted orange chicken using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Roasted Orange Chicken:
  1. Get 2.5-3 pounds bone-in, skin-on chicken pieces (drums/ thighs/ wings/ half breasts)
  2. Prepare For marinade:
  3. Get 1/4 cup + 2 Tablespoons soy sauce
  4. Make ready 1/3 cup honey (you can also substitute with maple syrup or agave)
  5. Take 1/3 cup orange juice
  6. Get 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
  7. Get 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder (not garlic salt)
  8. Get 1-2 green onions, chopped (including the white part)
  9. Make ready 1 Tablespoon oil
  10. Prepare optional: up to 1 Tablespoon distilled white or apple cider vinegar or lemon/lime juice if you like things a little extra tangy
  11. Get optional: 1/4 teaspoon ginger powder or 1 teaspoon fresh grated ginger
  12. Make ready optional: 1 Tablespoon sriracha or chili garlic sauce
  13. Prepare For garnish: 2-4 orange slices (just under 1/4-inch thick)

Rub inside and outside with salt and pepper. Cut orange in half and grate the zest of one half into a little bowl. Add garlic, thyme, olive oil and orange juice and mix well. Brush chicken with the orange mixture on the outside and inside the cavity.

Instructions to make Easy Roasted Orange Chicken:
  1. Put all marinade ingredients in a bowl and stir until honey is dissolved.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, or casserole dish, or Ziploc bag, combine the chicken with the marinade and give it a few gentle tosses to thoroughly season all the chicken. If in a bowl or dish, you should flip the chicken halfway through the marinating time so both sides are seasoned through.
  3. Marinate chicken for at least one hour and up to overnight and take it out of the fridge 30 to 40 minutes before roasting to bring it up to room temp.
  4. Preheat oven to 425F.
  5. Put your chicken on a single layer, skin side up, on a sheet pan. (You might like to line it with foil for easier cleanup.) Reserve leftover marinade.
  6. Roast chicken for 30 minutes at first, then pour leftover marinade over chicken, place orange slices on the pan as well, and roast for an additional 15 to 20 minutes.
  7. Enjoy! :)

Add garlic, thyme, olive oil and orange juice and mix well. Brush chicken with the orange mixture on the outside and inside the cavity. In a bowl, stir together honey, orange juice, chili powder and paprika. Stuff the onion and minced garlic into the empty cavity of the chicken. Lay the orange slices on the bottom of the baking dish and around the sides.

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