Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, citrus rosemary roast chicken. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Rosemary citrus roast chicken is perfect for a meal that you want to prepare ahead of time which you can just throw in the oven afterwards. Throw some partially cooked potatoes in the roasting pan, and a green vegetable as a side, and you have a meal fit for a Queen! (sorry, couldn't resist!) Another thing I love when roasting a whole chicken is using the leftover meat for an entirely new meal the next day. I wasn't able to take photos, but we used the leftover meat from this recipe The Citrus Rosemary Chicken is adapted from a recipe for Lemon and Oregano Chicken I found on Simple Bites.
Citrus Rosemary Roast Chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Citrus Rosemary Roast Chicken is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have citrus rosemary roast chicken using 14 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Citrus Rosemary Roast Chicken:
- Prepare 1 1/4 kg whole chicken
- Prepare 1 lemon
- Prepare 1 orange
- Make ready 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
- Take 2 tsp brown sugar
- Prepare 1/4 cup water
- Prepare chicken baste
- Make ready 1 tsp garlic paste
- Make ready 1 tsp chopped parsley, or dried
- Make ready 1 tsp chopped thyme, or dried
- Prepare 1 tsp paprika
- Get salt
- Make ready pepper
- Prepare 3 tbsp melted butter or ghee
This roast chicken, scented with citrus and fresh rosemary, is beautiful to serve, thanks to a final glazing of orange marmalade. Remove giblets and neck from chicken. This Citrus Chicken is a guaranteed crowd pleaser! I roast a chicken at least once a week.
Instructions to make Citrus Rosemary Roast Chicken:
- Set oven to 180°C
- Cut orange and lemon into quarters. Remove visible pips
- In a bowl, mix together all ingredients for baste
- Rinse chicken and pat dry
- Place one quarter piece of orange and lemon as well as one sprig rosemary into chicken cavity
- Sprinkle sugar into cavity. Squeeze juice from one quarter of lemon and one quarter orange into cavity.
- Squeeze juice from remaining two orange and lemon quarters into roasting pan.
- Place chicken into a roasting pan
- Using basting brush, paint chicken with baste mixture.
- Place rosemary sprig on top of basted chicken. Cover roasting pan and place in oven.
- After 30 min add water to pan, mix with pan juices and baste chicken. Cover and return to oven
- Roast for another 40 minute or until juices run clear. Give a last basting, allow to rest for 10 min
- Serve with vegetables of your choice
In France, I always buy the poulet fermier jaune (farmer's yellow chicken - it basically means that it is corn-fed. This easy citrus roast chicken recipe is bursting with flavor. The secret to this citrus roast chicken is the combination of lemon, orange, garlic, oregano, and basil. The result is a boldly flavorful chicken, and the drippings make an excellent gravy. This roast chicken with citrus is made by stuffing a whole chicken with orange, lemon, garlic, and herbs and then roasting it until the skin is crisp and Roast chicken just got even more impressive.
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