Name: Festive golden five-spice chicken
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 10 min
Total time: 1 h 25 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 8 chicken thighs and 8 drumsticks, skin on; 3 spring onions shredded, to finish; 2-4 tbsp groundnut oil; 6 garlic cloves finely chopped; finger-length piece fresh root ginger grated; 4 tbsp Shaohsing rice wine or dry sherry; 4 tbsp light soy sauce; 4 tbsp clear honey; 3-4 tsp five spice powder

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Festive golden five-spice chicken

Festive golden five-spice chicken

Ching-He Huang

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Serves 8

Easy

Prep: 15 mins

Cook: 1 hr and 10 mins

Plus marinating

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Chinese five-spice gives this chicken a wonderfully warm, aromatic flavour that adults and children will love

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Ingredients

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8 chicken thighs

and 8 drumsticks, skin on
3 spring onions

shredded, to finish

For the marinade

2-4 tbsp groundnut oil
6 garlic cloves

finely chopped
finger-length piece fresh root ginger

grated
4 tbsp Shaohsing rice wine

or dry sherry
4 tbsp light soy sauce
4 tbsp clear honey
3-4 tsp five spice powder

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal394
fat26g
saturates7g
carbs9g
sugars7g
fibre1g
protein29g
salt2.22g

Method

step 1

Whisk together the marinade ingredients, put the chicken into a dish, then pour over the marinade, mixing to coat. Cover, then chill for at least 20 mins, or up to a day if you have time.
step 2

Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4, and lift the chicken out of the marinade into a roasting tin. Roast for 40 mins, pour over the remaining marinade, then cook for a further 30 mins until golden and sticky. Sprinkle with the spring onion, then serve.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2009

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