====== Roasted Chicken with Oranges and Onions ======
  * 1 garlic clove - minced
  * 1 tsp salt
  * 4 Tbsp unsalted butter - softened
  * 2 navel oranges - one zested, both cut into wedges (1 orange optional)
  * 2 red onions - peeled and cut into wedges
  * 2 tsp finely chopped thyme plus a few sprigs
  * 1 whole chicken

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  - Preheat oven to 450 deg.
  - Mash garlic and salt into a paste. Combine garlic paste, butter, zest, and chopped thyme.
  - Gently separate skin from the breast of the chicken and rub half the butter mixture under the skin.
  - Fill the cavity with 2 orange wedges, 1 onion wedge, and thyme sprigs. Place chicken breast side up in 9x13 roasting pan and tuck wings under. Tie legs together with kitchen twine. Dot oranges and onions with 1 Tbsp butter mixture and arrange in pan around chicken.
  - Roast for 30 min. Brush with remaining butter mixture. Flip oranges and onions. Rotate pan and roast for 20 min. more.
  - Check onions and oranges and remove if caramelized. Continue roasting chicken until juices run clear and thickest part of thigh reaches 165 deg., approx 20-25 min. more.
  - Let rest 10 min before serving.


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  Serves: 6      Total cook time: 70 min.(30+20+20) + 10 min rest
  Source: MARTHASTEWART.COM



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