Honey Soy Chicken

Dear Fellow Reader,

Guess what time it is??

Its Honey Soy Chicken time!! You never had it?
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Then you haven't lived.

This recipe isn't mine though, I have to give credit where it is due. This recipe comes from my Aunt Kathy, who is an excellent cook. Almost anytime I come to her house for dinner, she knows this is what I want. I dug out the recipe and played around with it and made some minor changes.

So here's what you need!

Chicken, Soy Sauce, Honey, Ketchup, Ginger and Garlic. You will also need a 9 x13 and a mixing bowl to whip up the sauce in.

I washed and dried the chicken and then fabricated it. Fabricating is just a fancy culinary term for cutting up the chicken into pieces. 

And here it is all cut up! I was contemplating on doing a demo, but i decided nah, that's what YouTube is for. You can either buy a whole chicken and cut it up yourself or buy chicken pieces already cut up. Either one works fine.

If you've had a bad day and you need to take your aggressions out, theres no better way then to hak at a chicken with a chefs knife. It works for me, try it sometime.

On to making the sauce! See the garlic press? Have you bought one yet? Like I stressed in the previous post, you must. It will make your life so much easier. Scouts honor.

So go ahead and press the garlic in a mixing bowl. 8 cloves will do the trick.

Next go ahead and grate up some ginger. You're gonna need about 1/4 cup, so buy a larger piece.

Next comes the soy in honey soy chicken, soy sauce! 1 cup, dump it right in.

Next comes honey. But here's a little trick, whatever your gonna pour honey into, always grease it with oil or spray it with cooking spray. This way the honey slides right out. 

And its gonna be 1 cup, right into the bowl. 

Then add 1/4 cup of the stuff you dip your fries in!

Then whisk the living crap out it until the honey is pretty much dissolved in the soy sauce. 

Then pour it all over the chicken. Oh! i forgot to say this earlier, make sure the chicken is skin side down in the pan. You will see why later.

Then cover it and throw it in the fridge to marinade! I let it sit in there for a few hours. When it comes to marinades with soy sauce I prefer not to marinade over night because soy sauce is a tenderizer and breaks down the proteins in the meat and can sometimes make the chicken mushy and too soft. So a few hours is all you need! 

After the chicken got some time to marinade its time to get cooking!

So, the chicken is gonna bake at two different temperatures. But start off by preheating the oven to 350 degrees.

Pop the chicken in the oven for 30 minutes. Also keep the foil on, it will come off later. 

After the 30 minutes are up take the pan out of the oven, remove the tin foil and flip the chicken skin side up.

Raise the oven temp to 375 and put chicken back in oven for 15 minutes. 

After those 15 minutes are up, turn on the broiler and cook under the broiler for about 3-5 minutes, until the skin gets nicely browned. The sugar in the honey and ketchup will caramelize so that helps with the browning as well. 

And there you have it! Its super yummy and its really important to serve this along side something that can soak up all that delicious sauce, like rice or egg noodles. Enjoy fellow reader!