Baked Apricot Wild Rice Chicken - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 (3 lb) roasting chickens
1 tablespoon honey
1 onion, chopped
1 garlic clove, minced
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
1 lemon, juice of
1 (6 ounce) package long grain and wild rice blend
1 3/4 cups water
1/2 cup dried apricot
1/2 cup pecan halves

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350. Clean chicken, discarding giblets and neck. Tie legs together and place, breast-side up, in a Dutch oven.
Spread honey over chicken. Sprinkle with onion, garlic, turmeric, and lemon juice. Cover and bake for 1 hour. Drain off all fat and liquid.
Sprinkle contents of rice and seasoning packets from rice mix around and under chicken. Pour water over rice. Add apricots.
Cover and bake 35-45 minutes or until rice is tender and chicken is cooked through.
Mix pecans into rice. Cut chicken into pieces and serve over rice.