Spatchcocking chicken is a great way to cook a large chicken quicker and more evenly. Plus it makes it easier to slice.
Watch how easy it is to cut out the backbone in the video and you might never cook a chicken any other way.
Hoisin-Orange Glazed Chicken
Servings
4 Servings
Ingredients
- 1 4 pound whole chicken
- 1 cup hoisin Sauce
- Zest and juice of one orange divided
- 2 tablespoons fresh ground ginger
- 1 tablespoon ground coriander
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- ½ teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- Garnish with fresh orange wedges chopped herbs
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450°F.
- Spatchcock the chicken: Hold chicken on a cutting board with the backbone facing you and the neck down on the cutting board. Using your knife or shears, cut on either side of the backbone. Save the bone for chicken stock. Turn over the chicken and press down on the breastbone with the heel of your hand until you hear a crack and the chicken is all one thickness. You can also use a kitchen scissor to cut the wishbone.
- Combine ginger, orange zest, coriander, salt, black pepper and sesame oil in a small bowl. Rub ginger-orange mixture all over chicken, place on roasting pan and roast for 45 minutes.
- While chicken is roasting, combine hoisin sauce and orange juice.
- After 40 minutes of roasting, remove chicken from oven and glaze chicken with hoisin orange mixture. Place chicken back in the oven and roast an additional 5-8 minutes. Remove from oven and serve warm with remaining hoisin-orange sauce.
- Video by Brian Spector
Yes, pieces of chicken will work fine. I would suggest a nice vegetable lo mein and some steamed broccoli as sides.
Can I use chicken pieces instead of a whole chicken? also what sides would you suggest with this?
Can’t wait to try it
I use Silan and it works great.
What can I substitute for Hoisin sauce I haven’t seen any in Israel
thank you Tamar I saw the word ground and assumed it was the powder so how do you grind fresh ginger or do you grate it or mince it? also do you feel a tblsp of toasted sesame oil would be too overwhelming? Thanks for your help
I would just grate it on a micro plane, probably should be grated and not ground.
I love that toasted sesame oil flavor so I don’t think it would be too much, but if you think anyone might be sensitive to it you can cut back by half.
thank you . I have a ginger grater . I also love the taste of toasted sesame oil.
Hi, the recipe calls for fresh ginger so that is great and you can use toasted sesame oil in the same amount.
hi this chicken looks delicious. I wanted to know if I can substitute toasted sesame oil for the regular sesame oil and if I can use fresh ginger and how much should I use. thank you