*Orange Chicken by: Dara

you will need:

1 full chicken
1 orange (make sure it’s sweet) cut into cubes
1 lemon cut into cubes (other half use for sauce)
1 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper

Sauce and gravy mix:
5 cloves garlic very very finely minced
1 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
1 tbs fresh or dry oregano
4 tbs orange concentrate (frozen juice)
2 tbs butter melted
1 tbs sugar or brown sugar
1 tsp corn starch

Pre heat oven to 375 F cook for 1 ½ hours

Clean out chicken if you like to eat the insides cook to your liking and if not through away. Then Cut your orange and lemon into cubes and stuff inside the chicken. For best flavor sweeze oranges and lemons a little to loosen up their juices.

Tie up the chickens legs to keep everything inside, then rub salt and pepper over the whole chicken. Place chicken on a glass cake dish or on a cookie sheet and covered with tin foil for easy cleaning.

While chicken is starting to cook prep the sauce by melting the butter and mixing together the salt and pepper, oregano, garlic, 3 tbs (other tbs use for later) frozen orange concentrate, and sugar. 20 min into cooking glaze the chicken w/ the sauce, by using a pastry brush cover chicken do not use all the sauce the first time. Keep glazing chicken through out the cooking. Don’t use all your sauce the rest use as a gravy when eating.

Add the juices from the chicken to gravy mix then add 1 tbs orange. Heat the sauce to a med high and mix in cornstarch for thickening.

Prep time: 10 min
cook time: 1 and a half hours
cook level: Fairly Easy to Medium easy

Personal comments:
Try and make the gravy to your tasting sweet or more orange what ever you like it really makes your dish. I thought this dish could use more flavor that’s why I added make the sauce your favorite. Maybe if I had a better sauce I’d like this dish better...for now I give this a 3 and ½ stars out of 5 stars.