Rooibos-smoked honey-basted chicken

Name: Rooibos-smoked honey-basted chicken
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 2 h
Yield: 4-6
Ingredients: "1 large whole chicken"; "1 orange, halved"; "30 ml rooibos tea leaves"; " MARINADE"; "500 ml strong brewed rooibos tea, cold"; "60 ml each soy sauce and brown sugar"; "4 garlic cloves, bruised"; "1 onion, sliced into quarters"; " BASTING SAUCE"; "60 ml honey"; "15 ml soy sauce"; "5 cm fresh ginger, grated"

Esther Malan

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Rooibos-smoked honey-basted chicken. (Photo: MISHA JORDAAN)

Rooibos tea is as South African as it gets. We marinated a whole chicken in cold rooibos tea and used dried tea to lightly smoke it.

Heat a kettle braai, put a braai grid in the middle and keep a sheet of tin foil handy.

1. Put the chicken in a deep marinating dish.

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