Roast Chicken with Honey Glaze
Gather family and friends around a festive dinner with this succulent honey roast chicken served with roasted baby carrots, turnips, potatoes, and Brussel sprouts. A combination steam grill microwave oven makes it easy to cook this dish to perfection.
1 hours 30 minutesDifficulty:MediumIngredients
- 100 gbutter (room temperature)
- 1lemon (juice and zest)
- Salt and Pepper (to taste)
- olive oil (as desired)
- 1 tbspthyme
- 1 tbspitalian parsley
- chicken (whole, approximately 1.5 kg)
- 0.5red apple (cut in two pieces)
- 0.5white onion (cut in two pieces)
- 0.5lemon (cut in two pieces)
- 2bay leaves
- 1 kgfestive baby vegetables (carrots, turnips, potatoes, Brussel sprouts)
- 100 ghoney glaze
Steps
STEP 1
Place the butter in a bowl. Grate the zest of 1 lemon and add to the butter, then add the juice from the lemon, salt and pepper, garlic, a drizzle of olive oil, fresh chopped thyme and Italian parsley. Mix well.
STEP 2
Prepare the chicken. Season the cavity with salt and pepper, then stuff with apple, onion, lemon and 2 bay leaves. Lift the skin from the chicken breast and stuff the seasoned butter between the skin and the meat. Drizzle the chicken with olive oil.
STEP 3
To roast the chicken in the microwave oven, press COMBINATION setting 3 times. Turn the dial and set the cooking time to 75 minutes. Press START/SET to begin cooking. Baste the chicken with its own juice every 15 minutes. At 45 minutes into the cooking time, add the vegetables.
STEP 4
After adding the vegetables, brush the honey glaze onto the chicken and continue glazing every 5 minutes until the chicken is fully cooked. Arrange the roasted chicken and festive baby vegetables on a serving platter.
Enjoy
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