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.