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Hoisin Sauce Baked Chicken
Super easy and truly delicious baked chicken drumsticks using common pantry ingredients. Juicy on the inside, and the glaze is simply bursting with flavors.
The cold weather has been pretty insane lately, and here in Minnesota, the average day time temperature hovers around - 20 Celsius ( < 0 Fahrenheit!). It is the first time my life to ever experience such extreme cold winter, which by the way is business as usual around here. With such weather, I have been busy making good use of my oven to bake cookies, cakes, and yup, chicken. So today I am going to share with you a really simple and delicious recipe for hoisin sauce baked chicken.
What goes into this hoisin sauce baked chicken?
All you need to do is gather some everyday pantry ingredients to marinate the drumsticks. Most of the time I preheat the oven once the chicken starts to marinate, and by the time the oven reaches its desired temperature, the chicken is more than ready to be baked.
For the fresh ingredients, you will need:
- 8-10 pieces of chicken drumsticks
- 1 1/2 teaspoon lime juice
The lovely hoisin sauce is made from common pantry ingredients:
- 4 tablespoon hoisin sauce
- 3 tablespoon tomato ketchup
- 1 tablespoon kecap manis (Indonesian sweet soy sauce)
- 1/2 - 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon ginger powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 tablespoon oil
If you don’t have kecap manis, you can substitute with 1 tablespoon regular soy sauce + 1 tablespoon dark brown sugar.
How do I bake the chicken?
As long as you have the chicken at room temperature, I consider this pretty much an emergency instant recipe that happens to be awesomely delicious. Here’s the baking process:
- Mix together chicken with all the ingredients. Marinate or 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 180 Celsius (350 Fahrenheit), and line a baking pan with aluminum foil.
- Transfer the marinated chicken to prepared pan, and reserve any leftover marinating sauce for basting.
- Bake for 80-90 minutes, or until chicken is fully cooked. Please flip the chicken halfway, and baste with reserved marinade.
- Serve the chicken hot with steamed white rice.
Hoisin Sauce Baked Chicken
Ingredients
- 8-10 chicken drumsticks
- 1 1/2 teaspoon lime juice
- 4 tablespoon hoisin sauce
- 3 tablespoon tomato ketchup
- 1 tablespoon kecap manis (Indonesian sweet soy sauce) (*)
- 1/2 - 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon ginger powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground pepper
- 1 tablespoon oil
Instructions
- Mix together chicken with all the ingredients. Marinate or 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 180 Celsius (350 Fahrenheit), and line a baking pan with aluminum foil.
- Transfer the marinated chicken to prepared pan, and reserve any leftover marinating sauce for basting.
- Bake for 80-90 minutes, or until chicken is fully cooked. Please flip the chicken halfway, and baste with reserved marinade.
- Serve the chicken hot with steamed white rice.
Notes
- (*) Substitute with 1 tablespoon regular soy sauce + 1 tablespoon dark brown sugar.
Comments
Awesome Glaze and delicious look. I would love to check this recipe for my Christmas Dinner option.
Wow -20 that's cold! It doesn't get that cold here in Northern Italy, except at the top of the mountains! This chicken looks like a fabulous warming meal. I love hoisin sauce!
Yum! I love chicken dishes and this one has such a lovely rich looking glaze on the outside it must be delicious! The sweet soy sauce sounds perfect too. I can't wait to give this a go, cheers!
Love this recipe! My whole family enjoyed it and it's definitely one that I will make again and again!
This hoisin baked chicken is bursting with flavor. I've never cooked with kecap manis but I'm excited to cook with a new ingredient.
Is it 1 1/2 teaspoon of chili powder or 1 1/2 tablespoon?
Hi Erin, it's half (1/2) up to one (1) tablespoon. Sorry for the confusion. But feel free to add as little or as much chili powder to suit your preferred spiciness level. :)
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