Simplicity and rustic elegance go hand in hand in this recipe for roast chicken with honey and sweet, savory roasted plums on the side.
Ingredients
- 1 cup honey
- 8 sprigs fresh rosemary
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt, or to taste
- 1 (3 to 4 lb) whole chicken
- 4 plums, halved and pitted
- 1 ounce unsalted butter
Directions
Make the rosemary honey: Combine the honey and half of the rosemary sprigs in a small saucepan set over low heat. Warm the honey, stirring often for 15 to 20 minutes, making sure the honey does not boil or scorch. Remove from the heat and allow the honey to cool. Strain out the herbs, then bottle the honey and label it as the recipe makes more than you will need for this recipe. Toss plum halves with ¼ cup of the rosemary honey in a large bowl. Set aside.
Prep the chicken: Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Season chicken liberally with salt. Stuff cavity with 2 of the remaining rosemary sprigs. Tie legs together with kitchen twine. Place chicken, breast side up, in a shallow roasting pan or tray. Place the last 2 sprigs rosemary around the chicken.
Roast the chicken and plums: Place the chicken in the preheated oven and roast for for 30 minutes. Remove from oven, and scatter the plums around chicken cut side up, dotting each one with butter. Return to oven, and roast for 20 to 30 minutes more, until an instant-read thermometer inserted into thickest part of the thigh reads 165 degrees. Let chicken rest for 10 minutes before serving.
This is such a great thing to have. I ain’t Jewish as well but I love anything sweet potato. In my family we always have sweet potato menu at least once in a week. Personally I love its light sweet taste on my mouth. This is quite work well to mouth-watering my taste. Thanks for sharing this great information though.
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Sweet Potatos “levivot” are my favorites.
(we call them “latkes” only when they are made of potatos)
Yout really look delicious!
Happy Hanukkah 🙂
…and your latkes are a thing of beauty. Happy Hanukkah.
LL
delicious! love learning about everyone’s food traditions!
Now this is something I could really go for. This recipe sounds delicious!
My roommate’s boyfriend, who is Jewish, informed me two days ago that he doesn’t like latkes. I almost hit him. Then I decided that I need to make up for his lack of latke eating by eating tons of them. So I set about finding the perfect sweet potato latke recipe…and here we are. Of course, it had to be you.
These have Christmas morning written all over them. YUM! I may add some jalapenos…
I grew up “Jewish adjacent” (most of my grade-school classmates were Jewish), and as a kid I rather envied all those fun Hannukah traditions– then it occurred to me there was no reason I couldn’t eat latkes in December too. You are so right–one’s life (and palate) is enriched by experiencing the lives and foods of others.
We had Trevor spend a year at a Jewish preschool just for the experience. Then in first grade, he had his convinced his teacher that he was Jewish. She asked us if we minded if the class had a Christmas party since we were “the class’ only Jewish family”. We laugh about that every Christmas now.
“it’s fun to spend a little time in another man’s shoes.” yeah but you’d better ask permission first.…that man might get upset.
I love many foods from the Ashkenazi tradition, like latkes (and yours look superb!) and babka. I make the cinnamon babka (not a lesser babka at all!). I will be making these sweet potato latkes soon!
I enjoyed your “spouting your knowledge”! I used to like to wow my Jewish friends and co-workers with my (very limited) Yiddish.
you gotta say it with the gutteral hagh…I made latkes today too but I am a lazy blogger lately and I just cant shake it — happy holidays to you two crazy guys.…
Jewish or not I really do love latkes whether they are made with sweet potatoes or in the traditional way. I even saw someone make them from beets:D