Roast Chicken Romano

Total Time: 2 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 4 lbs roasting chickens, whole
• butter
• 1 orange, thinly sliced
• 1 red onion, thinly sliced
• 10 bay leaves
• 1 (1 1/2 fluid ounce) jigger orange liqueur
• salt and pepper

Recipe

• 1 take the chicken and rinse and clean.
• 2 open a pocket between the breast and skin on the breast.
• 3 sprinkle the body cavity with salt and pepper.
• 4 stuff with oranges, onions, and bay leaves.
• 5 using a skewer seal the cavity.
• 6 heat the oven to 350 degrees.
• 7 salt and pepper the exterior of the bird.
• 8 roast breast down on a rack for 30 minutes.
• 9 remove from the oven and carefully turn the bird breast side up.
• 10 roast until juices run clear in the thigh.
• 11 remove from the oven.
• 12 heat the orange liqueur, pour over, and touch a match to him -- carefully you don't want a house fire!
• 13 when the flames are gone, give it some minutes for the juices to return to the meat.
• 14 slice and serve.