Florida Baked Chicken
Why I Love This Recipe
Sweet oranges and lemons topped with a bit of your favorite peach or apricot jam or jelly makes this chicken delightful. This is a very
easy dish to make.
Ingredients You'll Need
1 lemon, zest and juice
2 oranges, zest and juice
1/3 to 1/2 cup peach or apricot jam or jelly
1/2 small onion, grated
2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon prepared mustard
cut up fryer pieces, enough to fill an 8 1/2 x 13-inch pan, about
four pounds
Directions
To make the sauce, combine the zest, juice, jam or jelly, onion, butter, and mustard in a saucepan.
Heat and simmer for five minutes.
Salt and pepper the chicken pieces.
Place the chicken in the pan, skin side up.
Spoon the sauce over the chicken reserving about 2/3's of the sauce.
Bake at 350 degrees for one hour or until the chicken tests done with a meat thermometer.
After 20 minutes of baking, spoon about half
the remaining sauce over the chicken.
After 30 minutes, spoon the remaining sauce over the chicken.
Serve hot.
Garnish with orange slices or lemon wedges.
