Garlic and Ginger Oven Roast Chicken
I love using fresh garlic and ginger whenever possible. One of my favorite ways to use garlic and ginger is as a seasoning for a whole roast chicken.
I created this recipe inspired by the Asian and Chinese flavours I enjoy so much. Once you try this roast chicken you'll understand why I make it so often! It's so good!
This awesome roast chicken is deliciously moist and succulent and the aroma of garlic and ginger fill the kitchen while this cooks. It smells so good while it's cooking.
Hey! While you're here, if you enjoy this recipe, please check out this delicious mayonnaise roasted turkey recipe from fellow blogger Couple in the Kitchen!
Ok now – just look…. look at THAT chicken!
When it's done and ready to come out of the oven it's skin becomes nice and golden and the garlic, ginger and other seasonings give it a little stickiness that's just so awesome!
One of the really great things about this recipe is that the drippings from the chicken make a sauce or gravy that's to die for.
The sauce tastes so amazing drizzled over the slices of chicken once it's served and is also delicious over rice or Chinese fried rice or even noodles.
This is a real big hit in my home and my little 2 year old just loves it! The last time I made this he cleaned his plate and kept saying “More chicken, more chicken!”. 🙂
Can't go wrong when it's something kids enjoy too!
Garlic & Ginger Oven Roast Chicken
- Yield: 1 whole Roast Chicken + 2–3 cups of sauce 1x
Ingredients
- 5 lb whole chicken
- 6 cloves of garlic
- 1 1/2 inch piece of fresh ginger, peeled
- 1/4 tsp white pepper
- 1/4 tsp ground fennel seeds
- 1/8 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp ground cloves
- 2 tbsp sodium reduced soy sauce
- 3/4 cup of water
- 1/4 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1 tsp sesame oil
For the sauce
- Drippings from the cooked chicken
- 2 tbsp corn starch
- 2 tbsp water
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 350°F.
- Using a food processor mince the garlic and ginger together until they are in small fine pieces.
- In a medium sized measuring cup combine garlic and ginger, soy sauce, 3/4 cup of water, brown sugar and spices above (except the sesame oil).
- Place the chicken in a roasting pan or baking dish.
- Pour the contents of the measuring cup evenly over the chicken.
- Put the lid on the roasting pan or dish and cook the chicken for 2 hours.
- About 1 hour into the cooking process take the chicken out and baste it making sure the juices are poured over every surface. Replace the cover of the dish and return to the oven.
- In the last 30 minutes of cooking remove the lid so that the skin becomes slightly crisp and browned.
- Once the chicken has cooked, sprinkle the sesame oil over the chicken.
To make the Sauce
- Remove the drippings from the dish that the chicken was cooking in. Use a gravy separator to remove any excess fat from the juices.
- Bring the drippings from the chicken to a boil in an appropriate sized sauce pot.
- In a small bowl combine the cornstarch and water so that there are no lumps. Add this to the pot and whisk so that there are no clumps. Reduce the heat and the sauce should thicken up.
Made this tonight with an asian slaw. Major HIT! My 8 year old boy made a toast and said it was the best meal I had ever made. Ha! The whole meal was super easy. I put the oven on convection, used a 3.5 pound organic bird, and it took 1/2 the time.
hi michelle,love your little boy he is adorable !!!!! im in the process of making chicken for dinner and stumbled upon your recipe garlic and ginger with fennel omg,i love that combination thank you for sharing ill let you know how it turned out.oh,btw, I m not making a whole chicken just a couple of breasts so I suppose I can reduce the amounts os spices,yes ?????elizabeth
Hi Elizabeth!
Awww, thanks so much!
I think this would be awesome with chicken breasts and I would love to hear how it turns out for you! 🙂 I agree that depending on how many chicken breasts you’re using you may want to reduce the amounts of the spices.
It’s great to hear from you!
Michelle
This looks so tasty. I will have to look into making this for dinner one night.
This looks fantastic. I love the idea of using the drippings for a sauce/gravy too- it eliminates some waste and makes use of the best flavour bits as well!
Garlic is one of my favorite spices to use when cooking chicken, which I make often. I like the idea of adding ginger into the mix as well.
Oh my! That chicken looks amazing by itself, but that extra gravy just puts the icing on the cake. I’ll be pinning this for later.
This looks and sounds delicious! I love implementing garlic and/or ginger whenever possible, too.
This, my dear, was divine!!! WISH I could show you the pictures.
Wonderful!! So glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
Michelle
Everyone asked for seconds and none for thirds left.
That’s so great! It always makes me happy to hear when someone enjoys my recipes! 🙂
When I make this it gets eaten up pretty quick!
This chicken recipe looks fantastic! I love using fresh garlic whenever I can, and I really want to make this chicken now!
oh that looks so good. i just had dinner but I could so go for this right now!!!
One of my favorite ways to cook is a whole chicken in the oven. I havent tried it seasoned this way before. yUM!
Do you have any room at your table? My goodness this looks out of this world, showing the recipe to my boyfriend as he’s the king of chicken and I want to try this!
My husband works outside all day. This is the kind of hearty meal he just loves to come home to, so thank you for hte idea!
ong this chicken sounds delicious!! I’m always looking for things to do with chicken
My mouth was watering at the name of the recipe but I was all-out drooling by the time I got to the sauce you made from the pan drippings. This looks so delicious! I can’t wait to try it. Thank you so much for linking it up at the This Is How We Roll Thursday party.
That does sound really tasty. I also love the flavor combination of garlic and ginger. Yummy.
This chicken looks so yummy! My children and I love whole chicken. I’m so going to try this. I’m always up for trying new seasoning.
I love ginger although I’ve never thought of putting it with chicken. Maybe because we don’t eat a whole lot of chicken at home. But I’ll have to try this!
Love garlic and love over roasted chicken. I’m actually a huge chicken fan in general and refuse to eat most red meat. I’ll definitely have to try out your delicious recipe.
I don’t think I’ve ever tried ginger with chicken before. I’d love to try this fora Sunday roast.
Pinned it! Looks amazing!
Thanks Alexa! 🙂
It’s been ages since I prepared rotisserie chicken for dinner. I need to try your recipe to serve to my fam one evening 🙂
NOthing better than a nice oven roasted chicken, this looks so yummy!
I can only imagine how good that smells! Roasted garlic really tastes delicious on chicken!
The combination of fresh garlic and ginger produces such fragrant and delicious aroma that’s enough to tempt me to eat. That chicken looks so moist and lovely!
I love doing a roast chicken for dinner probably once a week. I will have to try this delicious looking recipe. The last one i made i did in the crock pot. It was really good.
Mmmm, that looks yummy. I’m sending this to my hubby so he can make it for us. He does all our cooking. Can’t wait to try it. Thank you for sharing.
Garlic & Ginger, yum! These are two of the things that go best with chicken, in my opinion. Together they make a gorgeous looking dinner.
Those spices sound perfect for chicken. This is just the kind of dinner my boyfriend likes to have!
I’m always looking for some great chicken recipes. This one is definitely one I’ll put on my recipe list. It looks amazing!
That chicken looks amazing. I’m always looking for new ways to spice up my chicken!
This looks SO amazing! I have a rotisserie someone gave me recently and will definitely be making this in the near future. Thanks for sharing! I’m pinning this for later.
That chicken looks and sounds amazing. I love all meals with chicken and will have to give this a try.
That looks SO amazing. I’m a big fan of dishes with an Asian flair, so I can’t wait to make this. Thanks!
Everything’s better with garlic. 🙂 I love the Asian twist you’ve put on a classic dish. Roasted chicken is a hit at my house, so I know these flavors will be, too. Beautiful pictures, too!
You had me at garlic! Wow, this sounds absolutely delicious. I definitely need to try this.