Whole chicken with orange, honey and thyme

Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Clean an orange well and grate half of the skin. Press out both oranges.

Mix the orange zest with the butter, honey, mustard and thyme leaves.

Make indentations in the skin of the chicken and sprinkle the chicken inside and out generously with salt and pepper. Massage the chicken around with the butter mixture, also through the notches under the skin.

Place the chicken with the breast down in an oven dish. Pour the orange juice and the sherry along and fry the chicken in the middle of the oven for 30 minutes. Turn the temperature back to 150 ° C and cook the chicken for another hour.

Pour the gravy through a sieve. Slice the chicken into pieces and serve with the gravy. Tasty with potatoes and vegetables from the oven.