Baked Chicken Thighs Recipe (With an Asian Twist)
Juicy and tender, these savory oven-baked chicken thighs are an easy recipe that you can make to prepare meals to cook later in the week.
Equipment
- Cutting board and knife
- small mixing bowl
- Small whisk or spoon
- Air tight container with lid
- ovenoven, Tongs
- baking dish
- immediate read thermometer
Ingredients
- 2 lbs chicken thighs skin intact and deboned
- 1 tbsp rice vinegar
- ¼ c soy sauce
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 1 tbsp onion powder
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- scallions thinly sliced optional topping
- chili powder optional
- ¼ tsp black pepper
- Asian soy sauce glaze optional
Instructions
- Then, debone the chicken's thighs and butterfly each piece to ensure it is flat and level while making sure the skin stays intact.Use a knife to poke the chicken's thighs five or six times at approximately 1/4 inch thickness per pierce, allowing the marinade to seep into. Place the chicken in an container that has a lid.
- Mix soy sauce, wine vinegar from rice, garlic minced onions, sesame oil along with black pepper into the bowl of a small mixing container and stir until well-mixed. Pour the marinade on the chicken, and use either your fingers or tongs to ensure that each thigh of chicken is completely coated.
- Put the lid on top and then place the chicken that has been marinating to the refrigerator for at minimum two hours Turning the chicken over halfway through.
- Take the chicken out of the refrigerator and open the chicken for 30 minutes prior to baking so that it can come to the temperature needed for baking evenly.Preheat the oven until 400°F.
- Transfer the chicken into an oven dish and then place it on the middle rack in the oven.
- Bake for 20 minutes before checking the temperature inside. Keep cooking until it reaches 155°F and the skin turns golden brown. It takes between 25 and 30 hours in the oven I use. The chicken is usually cooked to 160 degF when it's sitting on the counter. However, should you wish to cook it according to FDA standards, then you need to pull the chicken and cook it at 165 degF.
- Bake the chicken and make the glaze. chicken.
- Place the chicken on an unclean surface and allow it to sit for 5-10 minutes before servinserving, serve.