Honey-Roast Chicken

Ingredients

• 1 stick (1/4 pound) butter or margarine
• 1/2 cup minced yellow onion
• 2 large cloves garlic, minced
• 1/4 cup Dijon mustard
• 1/2 cup mild honey
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 rounded teaspoon curry powder
• 2 tablespoons peach or mango chutney
• Small handful dried currants or chopped dark raisins
• 2 roasting chickens (3 1/2 to 4 pounds each)

Directions

1) To make sauce: Melt butter in a heavy 1 1/2- to 2-quart saucepan over medium heat. When bubbling, sauti onion and garlic until softened, 3 to 5 minutes.
Add remaining ingredients except chicken and stir until combined. Heat until warm throughout and set aside to cool slightly.
2) To prepare chicken: Rinse and pat each chicken dry. Cut each chicken into 8 serving pieces as directed. (Reserve and freeze backs for stock.) Dip each piece in honey mixture, coating chicken completely. Lay chicken pieces (skin side up) on 1 or 2 shallow baking pans. Spoon any remaining sauce over chicken.
3) To bake: Place chicken in a cold oven, turn heat to 400o F and bake 1 hour.
If you are using 2 baking sheets, roast in the upper and lower thirds of the oven and switch shelf positions after half the baking time.
4) To serve: Transfer chicken to a warmed serving platter and serve hot, at room temperature or slightly chilled.

Submitted 6/13/05.
Source: Lauren Groveman's Kitchen
Submitted By: Marlen
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Honey-Roast Chicken