Chicken legs, roasted with an orange rosemary honey glaze, are fall-off-the-bone juicy and great for dinner parties.
Preparation Time
20 mins
Cooking Time
2 hr
Total Time
2 hr 20 mins
Calories
777 Calories
Recipe Instructions
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Step 2
Sprinkle chicken with salt and place in a large glass or plastic bowl.
Step 3
Whisk together honey, orange juice with pulp, butter, rosemary, orange zest, garlic, and pepper in a separate bowl. Pour orange mixture over chicken; cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour to overnight.
Step 4
Place chicken in a single layer in a roasting pan; pour orange mixture over chicken.
Step 5
Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes. Baste chicken with pan juices and reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees F (160 degrees C). Continue basting chicken every 20 minutes and cook until chicken is a deep orange-brown color, no longer pink at the bone, and the juices run clear, about 90 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the meat near the bone should read at least 165 degrees F (74 degrees C).
