Baked Honey Ginger Chicken

Baked Honey Ginger Chicken is an easy weeknight dinner recipe that takes only a few minutes to prepare and results in tender meat, crispy skin and big flavor!

Course Main Course

Cuisine Asian

Keyword baked chicken, baked chicken, easy, for a crowd, garlic, ginger, glazed, gluten free, honey, roast chicken, sheetpan, soy, weeknight

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 35 minutes

resting time 5 minutes

Total Time 40 minutes

Servings servings

Calories 359kcal

Author Tristin Rieken

Ingredients

4 pounds bone-in, skin-on chicken legs or mixed chicken pieces
5 tablespoons butter room temperature
1 tablespoon fresh ginger grated, or ¼ teaspoon dried ginger
2 cloves garlic grated
1 tablespoon tamari soy sauce
2 tablespoons honey
1 teaspoon sesame seeds
sprinkle fresh basil, scallions or chives

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
Mix 3 tablespoons butter with ginger, garlic and soy.
Loosen skin with your finger and rub ginger butter under skin on all chicken pieces. Pat the skin dry with paper towels then brush with remaining 2 tablespoons butter and season generously with salt and pepper.
Prepare baking sheet by fitting it with a broiler pan or drying rack covered with aluminum foil. Pop air vents through foil and place chicken on sheet spacing pieces evenly and making sure not to crowd the pan.
Place in preheated oven and bake 25-35 minutes.
Remove from oven and drizzle honey evenly over chicken. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and roast 10 minutes more, or until temperature registers 165 degrees Fahrenheit.
Remove and let rest 5 minutes before serving. Serve with rice or noodles and roasted vegetables.

Notes

Cool to room temperature then refrigerate up to five days or freeze up to 3 months.

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