Honey Apple Butter Chicken with Root Vegetables and Roasted Apples

keepervodeflame

Needed to do a cook that featured apples. I came up with this and It came out great. spatchcocked and brined an organic chicken for 4 hours in 2 cups apple cider, 2 cups, water, 1/2 cup desert blossom honey, and 1/2 cup kosher salt. I chopped a honey crisp apple into fine little chunks and added even Tbs of fresh chopped rosemary, thyme, and mountreal chicken blend. I added garlic infused olive oil to make a paste and pushed it under the lifted chicken skin.  Roasted the chicken for about 2 hours; first hour at 250, and the second at 320, and let the temp climb up to 375 at the end. I made a glaze out of Desert blossom honey and Washington apple butter and applied it with a brush during the last 10 minutes of the cook. I roasted the chicken above a lodge enameled brassier pan filled with onions, carrots, celery, apple wedges, and sausage chunks. I seasoned the pan with apple cider, chicken broth, garlic infused oil and rosemary and thyme.  Very nice flavor blend with the sweet apples and glaze and the savory seasonings under the skin and in the pan. 

BOWHUNR

Very nice, it all looks wonderful!  Those veggies are just screaming to be eaten!  Nice job on the photos as well.

Mike