Five-Spice Chicken Breasts With Hoisin Sauce
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 3 1⁄2 cups water
- 1⁄3 cup kosher salt
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons Chinese five spice powder
- 4 (6 ounce) boneless chicken breast halves
- 1 cup ice
- 2 tablespoons hoisin sauce
- 2 teaspoons dark sesame oil
- 2 teaspoons fresh ginger, minced
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons brown sugar
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons reduced sodium soy sauce
- 1⁄4 teaspoon Chinese five spice powder
- cooking spray
directions
- Combine water, kosher salt, 3 Tbsp brown sugar, and 2 Tbsp soy sauce in a large bowl and stir until salt and sugar have dissolved.
- Stir in 2 Tbsp five-spice powder.
- Pour mixture into a large ziplock bag.
- Rinse chicken with cold water.
- Place chicken and ice in bag with the salt mixture.
- Refrigerate for 2 hours, turning several times.
- Remove chicken from bag and pat dry with paper towels.
- Discard the brine/marinade.
- Combine hoisin sauce, sesame oil, ginger, 1 1/2 tsp brown sugar, 1 1/2 tsp soy sauce, and 1/4 tsp five-spice powder in a small bowl.
- Heat one side of the grill to medium and leave the other side turned off.
- Place chicken, skin side down, on grill rack coated with cooking spray.
- Close lid and grill for 8 minutes on each side, brushing it occasionally with the hoisin sauce mixture.
- Place chicken skin side up on the unheated side of the grill; brush again.
- Grill an extra 5 minutes or until done.
- Discard skin and serve.
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Vino Girl
United States
My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
I seem to give a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews here - I seem to have a pretty good sense of what I like by looking at a recipe before I try it. Thank you to anyone that tries my recipes in return, or photographs them.
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