Summary

Ingredients

• 1 chicken
• salt and pepper
• Paprika powder
• 1 tablespoon honey
• some water
• 2 tablespoon sherry
• 150 g bacon, lean smoked
• 20 g butter
• 3 sprigs thyme
• 3 sprigs marjoram
• 4 apples, tart ones
• 5 cl calvados, or brandy
• 250 ml white wine
• 100 g cream
• Salt and pepper, whiter
• some sauce thickener, at will

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Instructions

1. Rinse the chicken inside and out and pat dry.
2. Prepare a marinade with honey, water, sherry, pepper, salt and paprika powder, brush the chicken with it, place the belly side down in a roaster with a lid, add the bacon cubes and fry in the oven at 200 ° C for about 30 minutes.
3. In the meantime, peel, core and eighth the apples. Turn the chicken, brush again with the marinade and butter, deglaze with calvados or brandy, white wine and cream, put the herb sprigs (washed and shaken dry) and the apple wedges around them, cover and fry for another 30 minutes.
4. Remove the sprigs of herbs, thicken the sauce a little to taste and season with salt and pepper.
5. Mashed potatoes or hash browns, for example, go well with this.