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Baked Chicken

Chicken wings, drumsticks or thighs baked in a honey-soy sauce.

From NYT Cooking

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Ingredients

  • 18 chicken wings, or 10 drumsticks or 4 thighs and 5 drumsticks, etc.
  • kosher salt
  • freshly ground pepper
  • 2 tbsp oil, peanut, canola, vegetable, etc.
  • 2 tbsp ketchup
  • 1/2 cup soy sauce
  • 1 cup honey
  • 2 to 3 cloves garlic, minced

Steps

1Heat the oven and prepare the chicken

  1. Heat the oven to 400ºF.
  2. If using wings, wash and dry 18 chicken wings and cut off the wing tips.
  3. Place the wings on a rimmed baking sheet.
  4. If using the larger quantity of drumsticks and/or thighs, wash and dry them and place in a 9x13-inch pan.
  5. If using the smaller quantity, wash and dry and place in an 8x8-inch (or something similar) pan.
  6. Season lightly with kosher salt, as soy sauce is salty.
  7. Season with freshly ground pepper to taste.

2Make the sauce

  1. Add 2 tbsp oil to a bowl.
  2. Add 2 tbsp ketchup.
  3. Add 1/2 cup soy sauce.
  4. Add 1 cup honey.
  5. Add 2 to 3 cloves garlic, minced.
  6. Stir to combine.
  7. Pour the sauce over the chicken.

3Bake the chicken

  1. Toss the chicken with the sauce, with your hands if you don't mind or with tongs if you do.
  2. Arrange the chicken skin-side down in the baking pan.
  3. Bake for 30 minutes.
  4. Remove the pan from the oven.
  5. Turn the chicken over.
  6. Return the pan to the oven for another 30 minutes.
  7. Remove the pan from the oven.
  8. Turn the chicken over once more.

4Finish the sauce

  1. If the sauce is not the thickness you like but the chicken has completed its cooking, transfer the sauce to a small saucepan.
  2. Simmer the sauce on the stovetop until it thickens.