ISRAELI ORANGE CHICKEN

      Title: ISRAELI ORANGE CHICKEN
  Categories: Jewish, Poultry, Ethnic, Holiday
       Yield: 8 Servings
  
       5 lb Chicken, roasting
       2    Oranges, whole
       1 lg Onion, cut in large slices
     1/2 c  Orange juice, fresh
       2 tb Ginger, freshly grated
       2 tb Honey
     1/2 c  Wine
  
   Rinse and dry chicken.  Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Insert one
   whole orange in the chicken.  Place in roasting pan, breast side
   down. Surround with onion slices.
   
   Mix juice with the ginger, and pour over the chicken. Roast uncovered
   at 350 deg F for 1/2 hour.
   
   Remove chicken from the oven, turn over, and smear with honey.
   Suround the chicken with the secon orange, sliced, and return to the
   oven. After five minutes, baste with wine and pan juices. If browning
   too quickly, cover with foil.  Baste again, after 1/2 hour. continue
   cooking until drumsticks are removed easily, about 1 more hour.
   
   Remove the orange from the chicken, and slice it. Garnish with herbs,
   as per taste.
   
   Note: Haroset makes a good stuffing for this dish....
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