Authentic Chinese Five Spice Roast Chicken
- five-spice salt (recipe to follow)
- 4 lbs roasting chickens
- 1 -2 green onion, sliced
- plum sauce
- To make five-spice salt: Combine 5 tablespoons salt with 1 tablespoon five-spice seasoning. Place five spice salt in a dry skillet. Cook & stir over low heat 3-4 minutes.
- Rub salt mixture (1 teaspoon five spice salt per lb. of chicken) on inside and outside of chicken. Cover and refrigerate seasoned chicken for 4 hours or overnight.
- Preheat oven to 500 F.
- Insert green onions into chicken cavity.
- Place chicken, breast side down, on a rack sprayed with nonstick cooking spray in a shallow roasting pan.
- Roast chicken for 35 minutes. Turn chicken over and continue roasting another 20-25 minutes or until chicken tests done. (Chicken skin should be crisp).
- Serve slices of chicken hot or chilled with plum sauce.
fivespice salt, roasting chickens, green onion, plum sauce
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/authentic-chinese-five-spice-roast-chicken-419500 (may not work)