April’s Chinese Basting Chicken
Ingredients
- 1 roasting chicken 5-6 lbs.
- 1 Recipe April’s basting sauce
- Basting Sauce:
- ½ cup soy sauce
- ¼ cup honey
- ¼ cup cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger
- 2 cloves garlic minced
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 F.
- Mix basting sauce ingredients together and shake well. Set aside.
- Place chicken in a well-greased or sprayed roasting pan and bake for the first 20 minutes without any basting sauce.
- Now, remove the chicken from the oven and pour basting sauce over the entire chicken, and continue to cook for another hour, or until internal temp reaches 165 F on a meat thermometer, basting every 20 minutes with pan juices.
- Cooking time may vary depending up the size of the chicken.
- Carve chicken and serve with Basmati fried rice.
- (Saute rice with scrambled eggs, sauteed onions, bell peppers, and sausage or bacon to make an easy and good fried rice. Season with a little soy sauce and sesame oil.) Pour pan juices over both chicken and rice. Enjoy ... it's delish!!!