Easy Honey & Lime Roast Chicken

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1 chicken
• 1 onion, quartered
• 3 garlic cloves, peeled
• 1 lime, quartered
• 1/2 lime, juice of
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• salt and pepper, to taste

Recipe

• 1 preheat your oven to 200°c/400°f/gas 6.
• 2 rinse your chicken well, inside and out and dry thoroughly with a paper towel.
• 3 stuff the cavity with the quartered lime, onion and the garlic.
• 4 rub the olive oil all over the chicken and season with salt and pepper.
• 5 place the chicken in a roasting tin and place in the middle of your preheated oven.
• 6 roasting time depends on size of chicken.
• 7 roast for 20 mins per lb plus an extra 20 minutes for the whole chicken (example: 4 lb chicken: 4x20+20=1hr40mins).
• 8 using the juices from the roasting tin, baste the chicken every 30 mins to stop it from drying out.
• 9 while the chicken is roasting mix the lime juice, honey and parika in a small bowl.
• 10 30 mins before your chicken will be done take it out of the oven and brush with the lime& honey glaze.
• 11 return to the oven to finish roasting, at the end of the roasting time make sure all juices run clear by inserting a skewer into the thickest part of the thigh.