French Chicken
From annieamie 17 years ago
- 120 minutes to make
- Serves 4
A simple French baked chicken dish that I learned to make while visiting a cousin in Paris. The sprinkling of the flour gives the chicken skin a light and crispy texture. The fruit and onion give the chicken a wonderful fragrance that's fresh and light, and goes great with the chicken's natural flavor. Read more See less
Ingredients
- 1 large chicken for baking shopping list
- 1 cup flour shopping list
- 1 large orange or 2 tangerines shopping list
- 1 large apple shopping list
- 1 whole white or yellow onion, shopping list
- salt and pepper shopping list
How to make it
- Clean and dry your chicken.
- Gently pierce the skin of the chicken with a fork over the breast.
- Sprinkle the entire chicken with salt and pepper.
- Quarter your orange and your apple (removing core). Keep the skin on the orange and the apple!
- Clean and quarter the onion.
- Stuff fruit into the cavity of the chicken.
- Sprinkle the entire chicken with flour LIGHTLY.
- Bake the chicken at 350, breast side up for an hour and a half or until the leg can easily be pulled away from the body of the chicken. Baste chicken with natural juices at least three times during the baking process.
- Remove from oven and let cool for 20 minutes. Remove fruit and onion and discard. The chicken is now ready to slice and serve.
- Bon appetit? ;)
- This recipe works great for Cornish Game Hens!
The Rating
Reviewed by 11 people-
I love chicken prepared this way... Just reading the recipe took me back several years to a wonderful time and place! Thank you for sharing.
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in Toronto loved it
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Annie, I made this. Du told me about your recipe and sent it. Yanno, I thought you were nuts to add the flour but it made the skin really crispy plus it kept the chicken really moist. It was so good and really tender. Dave really loved it. I made the...more
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in Beverly Hills loved it
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This sounds very good, thank you.
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