Sticky Baked Marinated Chicken
Another winner y’all, simple and super tasty. Very kid friendly, my little munchkins loved it. Serve it with some steamed rice and vegetables, quick, simple, healthy and tasty weeknight dinner easily achieved!
Yes, I know, it looked different, sliced cucumbers weren’t my first choice, I had to admit. I wanted thinly sliced green onions on top, but of course, life happens, I didn’t have any green onions on hand, so cute little Persian cucumber slices did the job.
Ingredients:
8 chicken pieces, I used 4 drumsticks and 4 thighs, you can use wings or even breast if you prefer, but please choose the skin on bone in option. The skin is the star of this dish.
1/4 cup hoisin sauce
1/4 cup oyster sauce
2 TBSP dark soysauce
2 TBSP honey, no need to measure, just eyeball the amount, really doesn’t matter for this large amount of meat
6 cloves of garlic, minced
1 tsp of ground black pepper
1 green onion thinly sliced for garnish at the very end
Method:
Mix all ingredients together except for the green onions in a large bowl, cover with plastic wrap and leave in fridge to marinate over night, or 4 hours before baking. This allows the flavor to penetrate the meat.
Pre-heat the oven to 400F. Line a baking dish with foil, for easy clean up, since the marinate has honey, it will burn in the oven. Put a rack on top of the foil. Line the chicken on the rack, skin side up for the thighs, and bake for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, pour the rest of the marinate into a small sauce pan and reduce on the stove for a couple of minutes to thicken.
After 10 minutes, remove chicken from the oven, reduce to 350F. Brush chicken pieces with reduced sauce to glaze. The color of the chicken pieces are amazing at this point and you could already smell dinner.
Chicken pieces go back into the oven for another 25 minutes to bake all the way through. Remove chicken from oven, dish up and garnish with green onion slices, enjoy with some rice and vegetables, what can I say, winner winner, chicken dinner!
