This roast complete hen recipe is made by stuffing an entire hen with orange, lemon, garlic, and herbs after which roasting it till the pores and skin is crisp and the meat infused with the lilt of citrus. Easy and stylish.
Roast hen simply bought much more spectacular. This riff on basic roast hen with lemon swaps in sweeter orange for a crisp-skinned, tender hen infused with the lilt of citrus. The pan sauce, too, is suffused with orange and is blissfully much less heavy than conventional gravy.–Renee Schettler Rossi
IS THIS ORANGE CHICKEN?
This isn’t the kind of orange hen that you simply discover on Chinese language takeout menus that includes battered and fried hen chunks drenched in a gloppy, cloying sauce. That is the kind of orange hen that’s a simple, fragrant riff on roast hen with lemon that can have each you and your loved ones clamoring for it once more. No lie. And in contrast to its sadly Americanized Chinese language counterpart, it’s bathed in a easy, silken pan sauce. The recipe makes a gracious loads of the skinny, lighter-than-gravy pan sauce, so spoon it over rice, potatoes, polenta, or no matter you select to serve on the aspect.
Roast Hen with Citrus
An entire roast hen in a roasting pan with halved citrus fruits round it
This roast hen with citrus is made by stuffing an entire hen with orange, lemon, garlic, and herbs after which roasting it till the pores and skin is crisp and the meat infused with the lilt of citrus. Easy and stylish. Susie Cowl
