This Honey Glazed Apple Roast Chicken is the perfect dish for a special occasion, and simple enough for a weeknight meal. The combination of the sweet honey and apples makes a wonderfully sweet pairing, just in time for Rosh Hashanah dinner! It’s quick and easy to prep, then pop it in the oven and forget about it for ninety minutes while you relax and/or prepare your other dishes. Plus, your house will smell divine!
Honey Glazed Apple Roast Chicken
Servings
6 Servings
Ingredients
- 1 whole organic chicken 4-5 pounds
- 1 apple cut into wedges
- 1/2 lemon cut into wedges
- 3 sprigs rosemary
- 2 tablespoons margarine melted
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 pound small yukon gold potatoes quartered
- 1 small onion cut into wedges
- 1 1/4 cup honey
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Rinse and pat dry the chicken. Stuff the apple, lemon wedges, and rosemary sprigs inside the cavity until completely full. Using kitchen twine, tie the legs together.
- Brush the outside of the chicken generously with the melted margarine and olive oil. Sprinkle on the salt and pepper.
- In a cast iron skillet or heavy bottomed skillet or roasting pan, add the potatoes and onion. Use them as a bed to lay the chicken on top. Place the chicken on the potatoes and onions and put in the oven on the middle or lower rack. Roast for 90 minutes.
- After 90 minutes, remove from oven, brush with honey and place back in the oven for another 10 minutes. Watch chicken carefully, as honey can burn quickly. Let chicken sit for at least 10 minutes before serving, or serve at room temperature with the pan juices.
FYI, Fleischmans is kosher parve.
Hi Kerri,
Jewish law is derived from both the Written Law (the Torah – Five Books of Moses – Pentateuch) and the Oral Law (the Talmud). The citation concerning not cooking a kid in its mother’s milk is “Torah shorthand” – a brief reference – to the entire concept and body of law regarding the separation of meat and dairy products.
With respect to your comment that you “believe Scriptures over man,” – man was ordained by our Father in heaven, through Moses, Joshua and the spiritual leaders that followed them, to teach us and help us understand God’s laws.
I wish you a year of spiritual growth as you learn more about eating kosher and other aspects of leading a Jewish life. Shana tova.
ok Tamar, thank you for taking the time to get back to me. 🙂 I’m new to eating Kosher, so as I am learning I’ve been doing research why things are taught. I understand the scriptures to be read differently. It says to not boil the mothers milk with the young, meaning don’t kill the young and cook it in it’s own mothers milk. Not to never eat meat & dairy together. While doing research, although I found a rabbi that is teaching the same way I’m understanding the Scriptures, I will still always believe the Scriptures over man. I’m not replying this is a spirit of trying to be argumentative, but instead just trying to understand what our Father wants from us. 🙂
I found this Rabbi saying this, to someone else’s question, about butter…
“Yes, Torah Jews use butter; and no, butter is not an animal fat, in the sense of the verse you refer to.
Actually, your question is based on a misunderstanding of the word “chelev.” The Torah forbids eating “chelev.” Chelev refers only to specific fats found in certain places on the animal’s body, such as the fat on the stomach, kidneys and liver. Thus, the vast majority the animal’s fat is permitted. So, even if butter were considered an “animal fat,” it would still be permitted, as are most animal fats. In reality, though, butter is considered milk.
For Biblical indication that butter is permitted, Deuteronomy (32:13,14) says: “[G-d] nurtured them [the Jews]…with butter from cows and milk from sheep.” Would G-d give us food that wasn’t kosher?
Sources:
Leviticus 7:23-25
Leviticus 3:3,4″
butter is dairy so it can’t be used in a meat or chicken recipe.
can I ask why you are against butter? are you implying butter is not Kosher?
Butter is dairy. Chicken is meat. You don’t mix dairy and meat at a meal if you are Kosher.