Roasted Orange Chicken
Tender roasted orange chicken marinated in orange juice and soy sauce served with roasted potatoes is a quick and easy dinner recipe everyone will love.
Hello guys! I have an exciting new recipe
A lot of people have told me lately that they look for quick lunch and dinner recipes that are healthy as well. I always loved anything roasted, more so lately with my son keeping me busy. Anything that can be prepared in advance and doesn’t take a lot of my time is super handy.
I made this roasted orange chicken last week and I love how it turned out. I need to make something quickly with a few ingredients I had in the fridge. You really don’t need a lot of fancy ingredients to make a fancy meal. Doesn’t this look fancy? Trust me, no fancy ingredients were added. Oranges are the not-so-secret ingredients that add such a nice color and make it looks like you worked your but for the meal 🙂
The marinade ends up making the most delicious sauce and adds so much flavor to he chicken. Wanna know the best part? I took me less than 10 minutes to prepare before tossing into the oven and relaxing!
The whole family was sick the past month and a half. It’s been only a few days since we’re actually all okay and we’re hoping it ended. There’s nothing less fun but being home with a sick kid or being sick yourself or even worst both of you sick. We weren’t able to go out for more than a few minutes a day and we were FREAKING OUT!
We were drinking lots of elderflower turmeric tea and eating a ton of soup! And finally got better… fingers crossed.
To be honest, a lot of the time I wasn’t even able to cook anything even slightly decent. Thank god for my mum, we were crashing her lunches a lot. Parents rock, right? I hope my son says that about me some day!
Roasted Orange Chicken
Ingredients
- 500 g chicken thighs (approx. 2 chicken thighs)
- 400 g young potatoes
- 1 orange cut in slices
- 1 whole garlic bulb
- 1/2 TBSP soy sauce
- 2 TBSP freshely squeezed orange juice
- 1 tsp ground garlic
- 1/4 tsp crushed black pepper
- 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
- 2 TBSP olive oil
- salt to taste
- 10 thyme springs
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 190 °C.
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Combine together soy sauce, orange juice, ground garlic, crushed black pepper, cayenne pepper, and 1 TBSP olive oil. Pour over the chicken thighs and let sit until you prepare the potatoes.
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Cut potatoes in 2 cm chunks and drizzle with 1 TBSP olive oil and add salt to taste. Mix well.
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Place potatoes in a baking tray and add chicken thighs skin side up. Add orange slices and thyme springs.
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Roast in the preheated oven for 50 minutes.
Recipe is incomplete….Nothing said about what to do with the garlic bulb. Looking at images, I can see you just cut it in half and placed in the baking pan.
Hi Narci,
you can eat the garlic together with the potatoes and chicken. You can use your hands or a small spoon to scoop ut the soft garlic flesh. Enjoy!
Delicious! Just for fun, I made 3 different blogger’s orange chicken recipes and yours was voted the all-around favorite by my taste testers! I can’t wait to try those recipes – they look mouthwatering!
Mercer Lynda
https://www.kitchenfolks.com
Hi Lynda!
Thank you so so much, I’m honored.
Love,
Anja