Spruce up your roasted whole chicken with this easy and delicious hoisin and orange roasted whole chicken. Brings wonderful flavour to plain chicken!
Roasting a whole chicken with the lovely orange and bacon topping infused the chicken breast with lovely flavour and kept the chicken exceptionally moist. To serve, I cut off the breast meat and enjoyed it warm a drizzle of the roasted orange.
Afterwards, I removed the rest of the chicken meat and reserved the bacon and the balance of the roasted oranges for a next-day salad.
Ingredients and Substitutions
Whole Chicken – Be sure to check the weight of your chicken beforehand and adjust the roasting time accordingly. You may need to roast a bit more or less.
Oranges – I used clementines, since I had a lot around, but any orange variety would work here.
Hoisin Sauce and Asian Chili Garlic Sauce – Hoisin sauce is easy to find, and Asian Chili Garlic Sauce is usually, as well. If you can’t find Asian Chili Garlic Sauce, Sambal Oelek is a good substitute, but use about 1/2 the amount specified, as it is spicier.
Recipe Tips
If you want to cut your oranges to end up with the prettiest slices, cut your oranges in half from top to bottom, then take a half and lay cut side down on a cutting board, with the stem end to the right. Slice off and discard the stem end, then keep slicing from there and you will have pretty orange slices.
What to serve with Hoisin Orange Whole Roast Chicken
With it’s Asian flavours, this chicken would go well with fried rice or noodles, or skip the carbs and do a quick, Asian stir fry of mixed vegetables.
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Ingredients
- 5 clementine oranges, or the orange of your choice
- 4 lb whole chicken
- 4 slices bacon
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
Hoisin Glaze:
- 3 Tablespoons hoisin sauce
- 1 teaspoon Asian Chili Garlic sauce
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1/3 cup soy sauce
- 1 Tablespoon honey
- 1 Tablespoon toasted or regular sesame oil
- 1/4 teaspoon fresh ginger minced
- Diced green onion, for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450F.
- Halve all the clementines. Thickly slice four of the halves, then cut into half moons. Set aside.
- Prepare Hoisin glaze by stirring together all ingredients. Set aside.
- Prepare chicken by rinsing well, then pat dry with paper towel. Season chicken inside and out with 1 tsp of salt and 1/2 tsp pepper. Place one clementine half into the chicken cavity. Twist wing tips under back and tie drumsticks together, if they aren't tied already. Place chicken breast side up in a metal 9x13-ish baking pan.
- Lay bacon lengthwise on chicken breast. Tuck clementine slices under bacon, overlapping them slightly. Place remaining clementine halves around the chicken. Brush a bit of the glaze over top of chicken and on the orange halves.
- Roast chicken in preheated oven for 20 minutes. Remove from oven. Brush a bit more hoisin glaze on chicken. REDUCE OVEN TEMPERATURE TO 350F. Tent chicken with foil and return to the oven. Roast 50-60 minutes, brushing with a bit more glaze about half way through. Remove foil (and set foil aside for now), brush with remaining glaze and roast uncovered an additional 10 minutes, or until thermometer inserted in the thigh registers at least 170F.
- Remove from oven. Tent loosely with foil and let chicken rest for 10 minutes.
- To serve, squeeze one roasted clementine over chicken. Slice and serve.
Notes
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Hi! I’m Jennifer, a home cook schooled by trial and error and almost 40 years of getting dinner on the table! I love to share my favourite recipes, both old and new, together with lots of tips and tricks to hopefully help make your home cooking enjoyable, stress free, rewarding and of course, delicious!
I followed the recipe to be the letter (which I never do, I always seem to tweak them). This recipe is so delicious. Absolutely to die for. If I was on death row this would be my request for a last dinner. Yep it is that good.
So glad you enjoyed it, Dana! Thanks so much :)
Made this tonight- really nice – great flavor and so easy.
Making the salad tomorrow!
Thanks
Thanks! Enjoy the salad :)
We loved this chicken. I used lemons instead of oranges as I didn’t have any oranges. I will make it again.
Glad to hear! Bet it was lovely with lemons, too :)
Making this tonight. It’s all prepped and ready to go in the oven, to be served with an Asian stir-fried rice that I will make just before we eat. So looking forward to this meal.
Do enjoy Kathleen :)
Such a gorgeous meal, I love the oranges and that stunning glaze!
Thanks so much, Laura!
This is wonderful! I use a lot of hoisin sauce, but have never combined it with oranges. Brilliant.
Thanks so much, Mimi :)
I am loving the Asian inspired flavors happening here, Jennifer! This chicken is definitely anything but bland or boring! It looks just delicious and of course I’m loving the addition of bacon! Dinner perfection, my friend! Cheers!
Thanks so much, Cheyanne :)
That is one gorgeous looking bird!! I bet the hoisin and orange taste so awesome together and, of course, BACON! Can’t wait to see the salad you have coming up :)
Thanks so much Dawn and watch for the salad tomorrow!
OMG Jennifer! This looks and sounds totally amazing! Your photos are leaving me incredibly hungry! Wish I could reach through my screen and grab that whole chicken!
Thanks Mary Ann, She was a stunner coming out of the oven and delicious, too :) A nice change from the usual!
I am not going to limit myself to eating this with my eyes only:) We are out of bacon, so will remedy that today and this chicken is happening on the weekend! Paired with some Belgian wit beer, will the perfect match.
I never do either, Milena (it’s just a nice perk ;) Do enjoy this. Sounds perfect with that beer!
I think I love that roasting pan more than the chicken
Lol Lisa:) I love it too! So pretty but also a great size and shape for so many dishes. I picked it up at a vintage store looking not too good, but it cleaned up nicely!
You’ve made my eyes and tastebuds very happy! This is one gorgeous meal!
Thanks so much Annie!
That top picture sealed the deal before I even read your post or looked at the recipe. This is spectacular!
Thanks so much, Chris! It was a delicious dinner :)
This has to be one of the most beautiful chickens ever! So much flavor in the glaze – I know this would be good on individual pieces of chicken too. Outstanding recipe Jennifer :)
Thanks so much, Tricia! I love finding interesting ideas for whole chicken, as we tend to cook them a lot.