Chicken with Orange Sauce

The Medieval Kitchen Recipes from France and Italy, Odile Redon, Franciose Sabban, & Silvano Serveti
Prepared by Cristiana inghen Mec-Bead
Served at MAYDAY event in Ruantallan
May 2005

Roast Chicken. To prepare roast chicken, you must roast it; and when it is cooked, take orange juice or verjuice with rose waster, sugar, and cinnamon, and place the chicken on a platter; and pour this mixture over it and send it to table.

1 free-range chicken, 3 ¼ to 4 ½ lb
Juice or 3 bitter oranges
Or
10 tbsp verjuice (or the juice of 2 lemons mixed with 6 tbsp water) plus 1 tbsp rosewater
½ tsp sugar
1 pinch ground cinnamon
Salt

Preheat the oven to 425F. Wash and dry the chicken and salt the cavity. Place in a roasting pan and put in the oven, basting frequently with the pan juices, until golden brown and nicely cooked. Add the sugar and cinnamon to the bitter-orange juice or the verjuice/rosewater mixture, and pour this over the roasted chicken (still in its roasting pan). Place the chicken on a platter. Serve with the pan juice.

We roasted the chickens on the barbeque as well. They are so yummy on the barbeque; they just have a wonderful taste and just fall apart. I have had Chicken and Orange Sauce before but this one just had a hint of orange.

Serves 6 to 8

 

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