Soy Glazed Chicken

This Simple Soy Glazed Chicken Recipe is an easy dish to whip up when craving for something crispy, sweet, salty, and absolutely flavorful! To make this dish, season the chicken with salt and pepper that will then be coated in cornstarch and fried until golden. Simmered in a sauce made of garlic, soy sauce, oyster sauce, honey, and some pepper. Garnished with sesame seeds and you’re done! An easy weeknight meal to make when you’re in a rush.

Soy Glazed Chicken Recipe :

Ingredients

• 1 kilo chicken legs ( boneless )
• Salt and pepper ( for seasoning )
• 3 tablespoons soy sauce 
• 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
• 2 tablespoons honey
• Pepper to taste
• 1 cup cornstarch ( for coating )
• 6 cloves garlic ( minced )
• Sesame seeds
• Oil for frying

Steps:

1. Prepare the chicken; season these with salt and pepper. Set aside. To make the sauce; in a bowl, mix soy sauce, oyster sauce, honey, and pepper to taste. Set aside.
2. Coat the chicken with cornstarch. Fry in a pan with enough oil, cooking at around 4 minutes on each side. Cook these in batches, set aside.
3. In the same pan; saute garlic until aromatic, add in the soy sauce mixture, mix till it bubbles. Let this simmer for 30 seconds before adding in the chicken. Cook for 2 – 3 minutes, flipping in the middle.
4. Serve once most of the sauce has been soaked by the chicken. Garnish with Sesame seeds.

How to make this Crispy Soy Chicken Recipe

This recipe for honey and soy glazed chicken thighs or legs or any type of cut ( more notes below ) are one of the incredibly delicious chicken dishes you can make in under 15 minutes more or less. Craving something crisp, savory and slightly sweet? Then this recipe is what you’ve been looking for. You can even pair this with anything from vegetables, rice, bread or any other sides.

To make this dish; first prepare the chicken, seasoning these with a good amount of salt and pepper. Set this aside to marinate while you make the sauce. The sauce mixture is made of soy sauce and oyster sauce which really amps up the umami and savory flavor, adding in the main sweetener which is honey, then ending with pepper for some taste. Mix and set this aside, taste and add more of the needed ingredients if you want to. Before frying, coat the chicken in cornstarch. The starch will really help crisp up the chicken, not only give it a nice crust but color as well. Fry this in a pan with some hot oil at medium heat. Fry each side for around 4 minutes each, or until these look golden. Take the chicken out and saute some garlic till it smells heavenly before pouring in the soy sauce mixture. Mix well and bring to a simmer, you want it bubbling and thick rough to quickly cling on the chicken’s crust. Place in the chicken and simmer together for 2 – 3 minutes flipping in the middle to make sure everything is evenly coated with the sauce. Serve immediately, or garnish with some sesame seeds to add a slight crunch and nuttiness. These are so good you might even make this twice to thrice a week!

Questions :

• Additional ingredients
  • Make some Soy Glazed Chicken Recipe Chinese – add in 1 – 2 teaspoons of five spice powder in the marinade or when seasoning the chicken to give it that usual Chinese seasoning many are familiar with.
  • Or try out the Korean Soy Glazed Chicken recipe- which is a slightly more spicy and very well marinated version due to the addition of rice wine, sometimes with the inclusion of ginger and garlic in the marinade. Also adding in brown sugar, pepper flakes, sesame oil, and more peppers into the sauce.
  • Make it tangy with a hint or a thumb or thumb sized slighted ginger for A “Ginger Soy Glazed Chicken Recipe”.

• Different chicken cuts to use :

This recipe uses chicken legs. You can use any part and call them as they are like; Use chicken things to make “Soy Glazed Chicken Thighs recipe”, chicken breasts for “Soy Glazed Chicken Breast recipe”, or chicken wings for a “Soy Glazed Chicken Wing Recipe”.

Do note when using parts with bones, these might take a bit more time to cook through. Around 7 – 10 minutes on each side or once you prick the thickest part of the chicken the juices run clear.

• What to pair with this honey soy glazed chicken recipe ?
  • Place this over rice to make a “Soy Glazed Chicken Rice Bowl”.
  • Pair with a side of mashed potatoes, fries, potato salad.
  • Green beans, coleslaw, steamed green beans.
  • Bread, a savory cornbread muffin, or garlic bread.

• Other methods of cooking ?

You can also make a “Grilled Soy Chicken Recipe”. In this version there’s no need to fry but more on marinating the chicken for more than 3 hours or overnight. Heat up the grill, or oil up a nonstick pan. Place over the chicken and cook for 2 minutes on each side. Keep the remaining oil to be mixed with a cornstarch slurry to thicken. Use the sauce to glaze the chicken while flipping. Once nicely charred garnish with sesame seeds or green onions.

Other Yummy Fried Chicken Recipes!

• Easy Fried Chicken and Gravy
• Crispy Whole Fried Chicken
• Soy Fried Chicken
• Korean-style Fried Chicken wings
• Fried Chicken with Spicy Cheese Sauce
• Fried Chicken ala Max’s
• KFC Fried Chicken

Soy Glazed Chicken Resipi: (Tagalog version)

Mga Sangkap :

• 1 kilo paa ng manok ( na walang buto )
• Asin at paminta ( pampalasa )
• 3 kutsarang soy sauce 
• 2 kutsarang oyster sauce
• 2 kutsarang honey
• Paminta panlasa
• 1 tasa cornstarch ( para sa pagprito )
• 6 butil ng bawang ( tinadtad )
• Sesame seeds
• Mantika panprito

Paano Lutuin :

1. Ihanda ang mga manok; haluan ng asin at paminta. Itabi. Para sa sarsa; sa mangkok haluin ang soy sauce, oyster sauce, honey, at paminta panlasa. Itabi.
2. Takpan ang mga manok ng cornstarch. Iprito sa kawali na may mainit na mantika. Lutuin ng 4 minuto sa bawat gilid. Lutuin ng mag-batch, itabi.
3. Sa parehong kawali; lutuin ang bawang hanggang bumango, haluin ang hinalong sarsa hanggang bumula. Pakuluin ng 30 minuto bago ilagay ang mga prinitong manok. Lutuin ng 2 – 3 minuto, baliktarin sa gitna.
4. Ihanda hanggang matakpan ang lahat ng manok ng sarsa. Dekorasyonan ng sesame seeds.