Honey Soy Baked Chicken
A delicious oven baked chicken, basted with a sweet honey soy sauce
Equipment
- 1 large oven proof baking dish
Ingredients
- 8 bone in, skin on, chicken thighs (note 1)
- 4 cloves of garlic (finely chopped)
- 3 tbsp honey
- 2 tbsp light soy sauce (note 2)
- 2 tbsp dark soy sauce
- 1 tbsp white vinegar
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- ½ tsp white pepper ground
- 2 tsp cornflour mixed with 4 tsp water to make a cornflour slurry
Instructions
- Add all ingredients (except cornflour slurry ingredients) into a large bowl and let marinate, at least 30 mins, best 24hrs,
- Preheat oven to 200℃/395℉. Centre oven shelf. Add the chicken (skin side up) and all the sauce to baking dish. Cover the chicken in the sauce. Bake for 20 mins. Baste. Cook for another 20 mins. Baste. Cook for another 20 mins. Remove chicken from pan and out onto your serving plates, leaving the soy juices in the pan.
- Mix cornflour and water together. Then mix this with the soy juices in the pan very well. Add back to the oven, cooking until the mixture is bubbling and thickened. Spoon sauce over the chicken.
- Serve with rice and steamed vegetables.
Notes
NOTE 1 - Thighs work best for this recipe, but drumsticks would also work well. Avoid using breasts. Thigh fillets would work ok, but reduce cook time to 40-45 mins.
NOTE 2 - Light soy sauce can also be subbed with regular soy sauce as these are interchangeable.