Friday, August 22, 2014

Five Spice Honey Chicken








Pinterest has so many great recipes and I have gotten into the habit of checking to see what Carol has pinned. I saw this recipe on her page from That's Some Good Cookin' .

It was really good and added to my make again list.



Ingredients:

4 Chicken Thighs with the bone in and skin on ( I used a whole cut up small chicken with the skin off)
2 tablespoons honey 
1/4 cup soy sauce (used lite soy sauce)
2 tablespoons rice vinegar
1 teaspoon Chinese five spice powder
1-1 1/2 teaspoons fresh, finely grated ginger or 1/2 teaspoon ginger powder ( I used the powder, didn't have any fresh)
1-2 cloves garlic, very finely minced ( I hand chopped and mine was sort of chunky)

For the sauce:
2 tablespoons honey
1/4 cup soy sauce ( used lite soy sauce)
2 tablespoons rice vinegar
1 teaspoon Chinese five spice powder
1-1 1/2 teaspoons fresh, finely grated ginger or 1/2 teaspoon ginger powder ( used ginger powder)
1-2 cloves garlic, very finely minced (my was chunky)
Few drops of hot sauce (my addition)
1 cup chicken stock
2 teaspoons cornstarch
2 tablespoons water

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375-degrees

Combine the soy, honey, rice vinegar, five spice Chinese powder, ginger, garlic in a small bowl and whisk. I added the ingredients to the magic bullet and gave it a few short pulses.

Take the above from the bowl and add to a large plastic bag that seals. Wash and dry the chicken and add to the marinate in the plastic bag . I marinated a few hours. The direction in the recipe were for at least  30 minutes.

Remove the chicken from marinade and place in a lightly sprayed baking dish. Bake the chicken for 30- 40 minutes or until the internal temperature is 165 degrees. While the meat is cooking prepare the sauce.

In a small bowl- whisk together the water and cornstarch and set aside.

In a small saucepan mix together the honey, soy sauce, rice vinegar, Chinese five spice powder, ginger, garlic, few drops of the hot sauce and the chicken stock. Bring to a boil over medium heat.

Slowly add the cornstarch and water mixture to the sauce mixture whisking constantly and cook until sauce thickens.

Spoon the sauce over the baked chicken.






13 comments:

  1. Now this is a recipe I will have to try. I love the sound of that sauce, and it has everything I like in it. Where do you get Chinese 5 spice powder tho? I will have to look in the special section and see if they have it. Thanks Linda for this, it sounds great.

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  2. YUMMMMMMMMM! That chicken looks fantastic Linda. I ALWAYS find wonderful goodies on Terri's blog.........man, I can't wait to try this one now. I have some whole chickens downstairs that we can cut up and use.

    Thanks to you both!

    Myra-I get the five-spice powder in the spice section at the supermarket-McCormick has it in the glass jar-I think it's their "gourmet" collection. Also check in the section where the Chinese food ingredients are.......near the soy sauce and stuff.

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    1. You know how we both love our chicken recipes!

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  3. Thanks Carol.......I have all the "normal" spices, but never checked out the others. Will do that when I go shopping next. This sounds so good, and I am going to try it next week.

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  4. Linda, this sounds amazing! Can never have enough options for chicken around here. Will definitely head over to the blog and see what else looks good.

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    1. Jolene- let me know when you make it. Would love to see your picture. Thanks for stopping by

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  5. Omg, this looks heavenly. Haven't been abe to respond with my phone lately. Need to get another phone

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  6. Yum. I have all those ingredients on hand and use them regularly. Came over from the Bloggers Brags Pin Party and would love if you came and shared on the Merry Monday Link Party.

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  7. I think my husband would love this! Thank you for sharing it. Also, Thanks for linking up to the Bloggers Brags Pinterest Party. I have pinned your post to the Bloggers Brags Pinterest Board.

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