Teriyaki Chicken Legs
Overview
Compared with chicken breast, chicken thigh meat is more tender and juicy, which is especially suitable for making teriyaki chicken, and the method is quite simple. You only need chicken thigh meat and a few simple seasonings to make delicious and juicy teriyaki chicken, which is the most delicious when eaten with rice.
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Ingredients
Steps
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After washing the chicken legs, remove the bones.
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Cut off the chicken thigh meat and pat it a few times with the back of a knife to make the meat soft. Then use a toothpick to poke some small holes in the chicken leg, and then insert a toothpick into the edge of the chicken leg to fix it, because the chicken skin will easily retract when fried for a while.
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Put the prepared chicken legs into a bowl, stir well with a small amount of cooking wine, salt and five-spice powder, and let it rest for about half an hour.
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Use this time to make a bowl of teriyaki sauce. Use three spoons of cooking wine, three spoons of light soy sauce and one tablespoon of honey. This amount is enough to basically absorb the juice. If you like more soup to pour on the rice, you can get more.
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Make a hot pot, add an appropriate amount of cooking oil, and start frying the chicken over low heat.
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First, turn the chicken skin side down. During this process, keep pressing the chicken with a spatula, because the chicken shrinks so much that if you don't press it with the spatula, the chicken will be very thick.
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After the chicken is fried on both sides, pour out the excess oil, leaving only a little base oil, pour in the teriyaki sauce you just made, turn on low heat, and continue to spread the juice on the surface of the chicken during the process.
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Delicious and juicy teriyaki chicken legs are ready, isn’t it easy? The taste is really good. Please pay attention to adding more honey to the teriyaki sauce during the process. The honey is sweet but not greasy, and it also makes the color of the chicken legs better.
