One of the best marinated grilled chicken with easy to find ingredients, this will be your favorite grab for a cook out or at home dinner. Work with any types of chicken meat: breasts, thighs, drumsticks, wings..., just pick your favorite for a moist, flavorful and tasty meal ever.
Course Entree
Cuisine Fusion
Prep Time 5 minutesminutes
Cook Time 25 minutesminutes
Total Time 30 minutesminutes
Servings 4
Author Victoria
Ingredients
4chicken breasts or thigh
2Tbspsoy sauce
1Tbsppalm sugar or honey
2garlic cloves
2small shallot onion
1Tbspketchup or plain pasta/tomato sauce
1Tbsplemon/lime juice
2Tbspoil
A sprinkle of ground black pepper
Herb for garnish
Instructions
Wash the chicken, pat dry.
Slit and few diagonal line on each breast or thigh.
Mince garlic and finely chop shallot.
In a container w/ lid or large zip lock bag, add all the marinating ingredients.
Then add in chicken breasts/thighs. Close the lid/zip the bag and shake rigorously to mix.
Let marinade 2 hours or preferably overnight in fridge.
Grill
Heat grill to medium/high heat.
Place chicken piece onto grates, grill each side for 5-6 minutes or until fully cook. Use a food brush to glaze and baste marinade sauce/liquid all over chicken surface in between.
When done, remove from grill onto serving plate. Sprinkle some chopped herb to garnish and decorate.
Oven method
If you have no grill, just preheat oven to 400 F.
Arrange chicken onto baking rack over shallow tray.
Bake/roast for 5-10 minutes, baste some sauce then bake for another 15 minutes.
Turn over and glaze with remaining sauce.
Bake until fully cook.
Stove top method
Heat a sauce pan with high heat. When hot, add 1 Tbsp cooking oil, pan and twirl to evenly coat the pan.
When oil is hot, add chicken breasts/thigh (without sauce).
When one side turn lightly brown and crust, turn over and fry the other side.
Pour in all the marinade sauce, add some water if sauce level too low. Bring to boil then reduce heat.
Cover the pan and cook 5-10 minutes. When chicken are fully cook, remove lid to evaporate all liquid.
Turn and gently move each chicken piece to evenly coat/glaze with the reduce sauce.
Keep heating until all the sauce is reduced and form a darkening glaze around chicken (not burn).
Turn off heat. Let sit for a couple minutes before garnish and serve.