Chicken In Orange Sauce
1 chicken
3 tablespoons butter
1/2 tablespoon mustard, Dijon
1/2 cup juice, orange
1/4 cup sugar, brown
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1/4 cup water
1/8 cup vodka
Instructions: Cut chickens in half lengthwise. Blend butter and mustard
together. Rub chicken inside and out with this mixture. Place chicken, skin side
down, in baking dish with tight-fitting cover. Preheat oven to 37
Combine orange juice and brown sugar, stirring until sugar is completely
dissolved. Pour over and around chicken. Cover and bake for 30 minutes. Turn
chicken over, baste with pan juices, and continue to bake, uncovered, for 20
minutes longer, basting occasionally. Remove chicken to heated platter and keep
warm. Mix cornstarch with water. Stir this into juices from pan. Cook over low
heat, stirring constantly, until thickened. Remove from heat, stir in vodka, and
pour sauce over chicken. Sylvia's comments: I'm unenthusiastic about this one,
and I'm not sure why. The chicken was pretty bland, but chicken usually tastes
bland to me, and the sauce was certainly flavorful. The combination of mustard
and orange juice didn't do a thing for my taste buds. It also took about 1/2
hour longer to bake than the recipe called for. Next time, I think I'll leave
out the mustard/butter rub, add a little pumpkin pie spice to the orange
juice/brown sugar mixture, and cook the whole mess in the crock pot rather than
the oven.