Free-range chicken with orange filling

Name: free-range chicken with orange filling
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 105 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 free range chicken approx. 1 1/2 kg; 75 g butter at room temperature; 1 el olive oil; 2 packages smoked bacon approx. 125 g; 1 tray thyme 15 g; 2 slices old white bread; 1 orange cleaned up; 2 toes garlic finely chopped

A tasty recipe. The main course contains the following ingredients: poultry, free-range chicken (about 1 1/2 kg), butter (at room temperature), olive oil, smoked breakfast bacon (about 125 g), thyme (15 g), old white bread, orange (scrubbed) and garlic (chopped).

Ingredients

Kitchen Stuff

baking paper, roasting tray, kitchen rope

Directions

prepare Brush the chicken with 50 g of butter.
Sprinkle with pepper.
Put it with the breast upwards in a roasting pan covered with parchment paper.
Cover the top with 1½ pack of bacon (barrels).
Put half of the sprigs of thyme between the chicken and the bacon, so that the thyme stays firmly on the side.
Slice the rest of the bacon.
Cut the crusts from the bread and crumble the bread over a bowl.
Grate the orange zest of the orange and squeeze out the fruit.
Add the orange zest, 2 tbsp juice, the chopped bacon, the garlic, the rest of the butter and the oil and mix all the ingredients.
Fill the cavity between the legs of the chicken with the mixture and the rest of the thyme and tie the legs with kitchen rope.
Keep the chicken covered in the refrigerator if you do not start roasting immediately.
2 finish.
Allow the chicken to reach room temperature in about 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 175 ° C.
Bake the chicken in approx.
75 minutes in the middle of the oven.
Remove from the oven, cover with aluminum foil and leave to rest for 5 minutes..