Honey Soy Chicken

This is a great recipe if you really want that sweet and savoury taste in your mouth where both flavours really compliment each other.

This is not a difficult recipe but it may take a while. I would give it probably around 40 minutes prep plus cooking time before you can eat this dish. So if you don't mind the wait, give this a go.

The honey used in this dish really depends on the type of honey you use. You'll have to taste test the sauce before pouring it over the chicken.

Ingredients:

Garlic (2-3 cloves)
Ginger 
Chicken (500g~)
Light Soy Sauce (~1/2 cup)
Honey (~1/4-1/3 cup)

• Step 1, preheat your oven at forced fan settings at 180 degrees Celsius   
• Step 2,cut up the ginger, garlic and chicken
• Step 3, place the cut up ingredients into an ovenproof dish
• Step 4, in a bowl, pour in the soy sauce and honey and mix well. Ensure that all the honey has dissolved.
• Step 5, pour the liquid mixture over the chicken in the dish. 

I like to make sure that my chicken is flat on the dish and is all almost fully covered with the soy sauce.

• Step 6, cover the dish either with a lid (if you have one) or wrapped with aluminium foil. There is no need to poke holes in the foil.
• Step 7, place the covered dish in the oven for around 30-40 minutes or until the chicken has cooked
• Step 8, remove the foil and flip the chicken pieces over.
• Step 9, allow the uncovered dish to stay in the oven for around another 5 minutes and remove.
• Step 10, Serve. 

There is no need to drain out the soy sauce marinade. What I like to do is use it as a sauce and drizzle it over my rice when I eat the dish. Plus, if there is leftover chicken, it will not go dry as you can store it together with the marinade.


If you have leftover chicken and leftover rice... and you want to eat some thing different. Change it up into fried rice :)

Ingredients:

Leftover honey soy chicken (plus marinade)
Leftover rice 
Egg (1 or 2)
Frozen/fresh corn kernels
Cooking oil

• Step 1, heat up some cooking oil in a sauce pan
• Step 2, when the oil heats up, add in the corn kernels
• Step 3, add in the rice 

If required, add in a little bit of water to soften up the rice. Then cover with a lid (if you want).

• Step 4, add in the chicken and drizzle the rice with the marinade (till there is enough flavour)
• Step 5, crack the egg into a bowl/cup and mix.
• Step 6, pour the egg over the rice and allow the rice to be completely coated with egg.
• Step 7, mix the rice around as the egg is cooking to ensure that the 
• Step 5, Serve :)

Do not add in the chicken before the rice even if the rice does not require water. The chicken may overcook and you will end up with super tough chicken. As much as it's leftovers, you still want your chicken to be as juicy and moist as possible.

 

I love to do something different with leftovers. No one likes to eat the same thing for every meal just because there are leftovers. There's usually a way to change it up and turn it into something that tastes like a new dish altogether :) 

Hugs for everyone :) Enjoy the meal!