Currant-glazed Chicken

Total Time: 1 hr 40 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 3 1/2 lbs broiler-fryer chickens, whole
• 4 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 tablespoons gingerroot, grated
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 3/4 cup currant jelly
• 3 tablespoons honey
• 2 teaspoons lemon peel, finely shredded
• 2 teaspoons reduced sodium soy sauce

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 375°f.
• 2 rinse chicken; pat dry.
• 3 in a small bowl stir together garlic, gingerroot, salt and pepper. rub on skin of chicken and inside the body cavity too.
• 4 skewer neck skin to back. tie legs together with string. tuck wings under back. prick skin with a fork.
• 5 place chicken breast side up, on a rack in a shallow roasting pan.
• 6 insert a meat thermometer into center of thigh muscle. do not touch bone. put chicken in oven to roast for 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
• 7 meanwhile, in a small saucepan, combine jelly, honey, lemon peel and soy sauce. cook and stir until jelly melts.
• 8 brush chicken with about 1/4 of the jelly mixture during the last 10 minutes of roasting.
• 9 chicken is done when thermometer reads 180°f and drumsticks more easily in their sockets. remove chicken from oven and let stand covered in foil for 10 minutes.
• 10 serve remaining jelly mixture warm with chicken.