Orange roast chicken with potatoes is a delicious second course of Italian cuisine, easy to make and you bake everything together, with the juicy, tender, and very tasty chicken, along with the very tasty potatoes, cooked in the same pan with all the juices released by the chicken. For the holidays, it will be the perfect dish to bring to the table, majestic and succulent, you’ll make a great impression with minimal effort, just put the chicken in the pan, season it, and the oven does all the work until it is perfectly cooked and golden as you like. So let’s see how to prepare this delicious roast chicken, cooked whole, with oranges, with roasted potatoes.
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Affordable
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 4
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons, Fall, Winter
Ingredients for Orange Roast Chicken
- 1 chicken (approximately 2.2 lbs)
- juice of 1 orange
- olive oil
- sage
- rosemary
- chili pepper
- salt
- 1.75 lbs potatoes
Tools for Preparing Orange Roast Chicken with Potatoes
- 1 Baking pan
- 1 Parchment paper
- 1 Potato peeler
- 1 Bowl
- 1 Small bowl
- 1 Citrus juicer
- 1 Spoon
- 1 Knife
- 1 Blowtorch
- 1 Kitchen twine
- 1 Brush
Steps for Preparing Orange Chicken
Let’s prepare the chicken immediately. With a blowtorch or any flame, burn the entire surface to remove feather residues. At that point, we tie the wings with kitchen twine and place it on parchment paper in the baking pan, using the oven tray for optimal cooking.
In a small bowl, we put crumbled dried rosemary and sage. Add olive oil, salt, ground dried chili pepper, and the juice of an orange. Mix and use a kitchen brush to spread this mixture all over the chicken.
Peel the potatoes and cut them into thick slices, wash, season with oil, salt, rosemary, and a bit of chili pepper. Mix and add to the pan. Pour the remaining liquid over the chicken, letting some go inside as well.
Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F for about an hour. Halfway through, you can turn the chicken if you want the skin to be well-cooked on all sides, otherwise, it’s not necessary.
Take it out of the oven and enjoy, hot, juicy, and flavorful.
