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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  African >> Rest Africa >> Nigerian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. | 2. Rinse chicken and pat dry with paper towels. | 3. Grate zest from 1 orange and from only 1 of the lemons and reserve it. | 4. Cut the zested lemon into quarters and rub the outside of the chicken with the lemon quarters and discard them. | 5. Cut the zested orange into quarters and also cut the other lemon into quarters and reserve them. | 6. In a small bowl, stir together lemon and orange zests and 1 tablespoons of the grated ginger and rub this mixture evenly inside cavity of the chicken. | 7. Put the orange and remaining lemon quarters inside body and neck of the chicken and season chicken all over with salt and pepper. | 8. Place the chicken on a rack set in a shallow roasting pan. | 9. In a small bowl stir together margarine or oil, citrus juices, honey, and remaining 2 tablespoons of grated ginger. | 10. Place chicken on the middle rack of the oven and roast for 2 to 2 1/2 hours, or until a meat thermometer inserted in the fleshy part of thigh registers 170 degrees F. and juices run clear. | 11. Baste with the citrus juice mixture at least 4 times during roasting. | 12. *If chicken is browning too quickly, tent with foil. | 13. Transfer to a platter and let rest for 10-15 minutes before carving chicken. | 14. Garnish with orange sections. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
roasting chicken	1			965.6022	0.408	77.4748	70.0855
orange	1			1.7625	0.4406	0.0352	0.0045
lemon	2			2.5617	0.8233	0.0972	0.0265
ginger	2	tablespoons	grated divided	9.6	2.1324	0.2184	0.09
salt				-	-	-	-
pepper				-	-	-	-
margarine	5	tablespoons	unsalted melted	506.895	0.6345	0.6345	56.7525
lemon juice	1/4	cup		13.42	4.209	0.2135	0.1464
orange juice	1/2	cup		55.8	12.895999999999999	0.868	0.248
honey	3	tablespoons		-	-	-	-
orange	1		sectioned	1.7625	0.4406	0.0352	0.0045

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.