I’ve adapted my hugely popular recipe for whole roasted chicken with ginger and orange to a tray roast rendition with new potatoes. This roast chicken with orange and ginger is the perfect one-pan weeknight-winning dinner. The combination of the roast chicken pan juices, fresh orange juice, ginger, stock, and thyme make a wonderful sauce for the chicken to cook in and poured over at the end. Roast a few extra oranges in another pan if space in the roasting pan is limited as these can be squeezed over the chicken.
I developed this recipe for roast chicken with orange, ginger, and new potatoes to pair with Kara Tara Pinot Noir Made from grapes sourced from carefully selected premium vineyards in the Elgin region. Kara Tara Pinot Noir is an elegant, lightly wooded style of Pinto Noir showing classic strawberry and cheery nites coupled with a hint of spice. A firm, yet silky-smooth tannin structure supports the lovely bright fruit characteristics of the wine. The 2019 vintage was the 4thyear of drought, but the weather was generally moderate during the harvest and produced grapes of moderate sugar levels and good natural acidity.
Recipe – serves 4
PrintRoast chicken with orange & ginger & new potatoes
A simple and delicious tray of roasted chicken with orange, ginger, and new potatoes.
Ingredients
Chicken:
1 large free-range chicken, cut into 8 pieces (or just use a mix of 8 large chicken pieces)
250ml freshly squeezed orange juice
Finely grated zest from 2 oranges
4 garlic cloves, crushed
3cm piece ginger, finely grated (1 Tbsp)
125ml / half a cup chicken stock
1 orange cut into 8 wedges
500gms baby potatoes
4 thyme stalks
Salt & pepper
Additional roasted oranges (optional)
2 oranges cut into wedges
olive oil
a pinch of ground ginger
2 – 3 Tbsp brown sugar
salt and freshly ground white pepper
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 200C / 400F
Joint your chicken and place it in a large oven roasting tray with the skin side up. Place the new potatoes in amongst the chicken pieces and arrange the wedges of oranges and thyme stalks to fit in between. Season the bird well with salt and white pepper.
Make the stock and then add the orange juice, zest, garlic, and ginger, and mix. Pour this over the chicken and potatoes.
If you are making additional orange wedges to roast alongside this chicken, toss the orange wedges in olive oil, season with salt and pepper, and place in a single layer on a baking tray. Sprinkle over a little ground ginger and brown sugar.
Roast the chicken uncovered for an hour – to an hour and 10 minutes until it’s golden. If you are roasting the additional orange wedges, do so within 45 minutes of the cooking time then remove them and set them aside to serve with the chicken.
Place the chicken and potatoes on a serving platter and then strain out all the pan liquid and drizzle this over the chicken and serve any excess on the side. Good crusty bread is great to dip into the sauce.
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6 Comments
Hi Sam,
Supurb recipe, enjoyed it to the last bit. I made it with green beans at the side.
Regards, Peter
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I’m so glad you enjoyed this recipe Peter 🙂
This is delicious! Best roast chicken dinner, this is definitely going to be a regular in our house. Thanks Sam!
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Hi Mindy, I’m so glad you enjoyed this recipe. Sam
So delicious. I hadn’t thought of these flavours together but happened to have it all at hand. This will become a staple for us going forward for sure.
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I’m so glad you enjoyed this recipe Carien