Chicken With Sauce
"An unbelievably delicious, quick, and simple recipe that proves you don't need 16 million ingredients to make chicken interesting. It's a true "30-minute meal", maybe even less if you hurry. Although it's absolutely nothing fancy, this recipe comes from the midwest, a place where people love food and know how it's supposed to be. Everyone I know who has ever tried this dish has loved it, and I hope you all do as well."
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Serves:
-
2-4
ingredients
- 6 chicken thighs (leave the skin on at least until it's done cooking, you don't have to actually eat it)
- 1⁄3 cup soy sauce
- 1⁄3 cup chili sauce
- 1⁄3 cup light brown sugar (both are fine) or 1/3 cup dark brown sugar (both are fine)
- 1 -2 garlic clove
- 1⁄8 teaspoon fresh ginger (don't use powdered) or 1/8 teaspoon ginger puree (don't use powdered)
directions
- Place chicken in microwave-safe dish with skin side facing up.
- Mix other ingredients together.
- Pour sauce over chicken.
- Microwave on high, covered, for 10 minutes.
- Turn chicken thighs over, re-baste with sauce using turkey baster.
- Microwave on high, covered, for another 10 minutes.
- Remove from microwave, tilt dish so that the liquid flows to one corner. Use turkey baster to extract the sauce from underneath the fat which has risen to the top of the liquid.
- Reapply de-greased sauce, serve with rice and your choice of vegetables.
Questions & Replies
Got a question?
Share it with the community!
Reviews
Have any thoughts about this recipe?
Share it with the community!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Hi everyone, I'm a 22 year old guy from Milwaukee, WI. I live in an apartment in the Riverwest neighborhood which is mine. My "plan A" is to study English and go on to teaching or writing. Right now I'm painting houses to keep my head above water; I don't mind doing this and I get along well with the people I work with, but it's not really my choice of career.
My hobbies include many of the stereotypical things that a slacker my age would do: playing guitar, video games, TV, movies, and music. Also, I've always enjoyed food and cooking, and after getting addicted to the Food Network, it's turned into a fun and rewarding hobby for me.
A friend of mine was talking about how delicious his Hot and Sour Soup was, and I decided I would try to make the same recipe because it sounded especially good. He said he got the recipe off this website, and I've been coming here ever since. It's extremely easy to find a recipe for almost anything here, and people's comments and reviews are often really helpful in getting the food to turn out perfect on the first try.
My favorite thing lately has been trying to learn how to make all the foods that my mom made when I was younger--and improve on them. My mom isn't necessarily a bad cook, but she has never paid any attention to the science behind why the food turns out good or bad. That's why I like Alton Brown, because he not only explains how to cook, but why to do it a certain way. My mom just does everything the same way she always has, and sometimes there's a better way to do it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not some kind of preppie chef that puts cilantro on everything and tries to combine cooking styles that don't go together. I'm old school; I like things like green bean casserole with those ultra-processed fried onion bits on top and cream of mushroom soup with like 9 million grams of sodium per can. I don't put barbecue sauce on pizza, and my idea of garnish is maybe a sprig of parsley. I think there's something to be said for the trashy American style of cooking that developed in the 20th century. Just because food isn't exotic doesn't mean it isn't delicious and satisfying.
