Honey Soy Glazed Chicken

This is a very simple to make chicken dish but if you want the extra oomph of flavor, let it marinate, really. It’s only for about 30 minutes to an hour, as long as you can afford timewise but so worth it.

All you do is assemble your marinade ingredients after cleaning your chickens,

Put the lot of ingredients into a nice sized ziploc bag, large enough to hold 6-8 drumsticks and thighs of chicken. After you put the sauce ingredients in, squish them up in the bag to mix, and gently plunk the chicken parts into the bag, then carefully ziploc them in and massage the sauce into the chicken.

Lay the bag with the chicken on an aluminum foil covered rimmed baking sheet and ignore for about 15 minutes.

Pass by and flip the whole bag to the other side. This ensures that the marinade gets on both sides. Do this a few more times. I usually let this marinate for about an hour.

Fifteen minutes before you want to start roasting them, preheat the oven to 375 F.

Remove the chicken from the bag and gently pour most of the marinade over the chicken, discard the extra. Roast the chicken for about 50 minutes to an hour or till beautifully browned and fully cooked. Serve with the sauce spooned over the chicken. Pairs beautifully with rice.

Honey soy glazed chicken

6-8 pieces of chicken legs, drumsticks and thighs

Sauce Ingredients:
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup honey
2 cloves crushed garlic
2 tablespoons sweet chili sauce
1/4 cup molasses or date syrup (silan)
1 teaspoon crushed or grated ginger

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 375 F.

Clean chickens and set aside. Mix all sauce ingredients in a plastic ziploc bag. Put chicken carefully into bag and zip shut and massage sauce into chicken and let marinate about fifteen minutes and flip bag to second side and marinate another fifteen minutes. Do this twice more so that you’ve marinated the chicken for about an hour. Take a rimmed baking sheet and line with foil and take chicken out of bag and place on foil. Carefully pour most of the marinade over the chicken, discard the extra. Roast the chicken for 50 minutes to an hour or until the chicken is beautifully browned and fully cooked. Serve with sauce spooned over chicken and it’s lovely over rice.