Chicken legs in soy-honey sauce

Juicy chicken in sauce with an appetizing brown crust. Chicken legs in soy-honey sauce can be cooked for a casual lunch or dinner or served on a festive table. Chicken drumsticks are perfectly combined with absolutely any side dish. Soy-honey sauce gives the dish a peculiar slightly sweet taste, which is complemented by a hint of spices. In addition, when baking in the oven, this sauce contributes to the formation of an appetizing crispy crust on the finished dish.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 35 % 13 g
Fats 19 % 7 g
Carbohydrates 46 % 17 g
164 kcal
GI: 50 / 0 / 50

Cooking method

Cooking time: 6 h 20 min

Soy-honey sauce is widely used for baking any meat, including chicken. This sauce is very popular in the cuisine of the peoples of Asia.
If frozen food is used to cook chicken legs in soy-honey sauce, then it must be thawed at room temperature in advance. My shins, dry well.
Making soy-honey sauce. Squeeze the juice out of the lemon. No more than half a small lemon will be enough for this.
If the honey is thick, heat it up in a water bath to a liquid state.
Combine soy sauce, liquid honey, lemon juice and mix well until the honey dissolves. If desired, the sauce is slightly salted.
Soy sauce itself has a certain degree of salinity, it salts chicken meat well. Therefore, if someone restricts the use of salt, you can not salt soy-honey sauce.
In the sauce for marinating chicken legs, add paprika, ginger, ground black pepper, if desired, and mix everything until the spices are evenly distributed.
Place the chicken drumsticks in a suitable container, pour the sauce and mix well.
We put the legs in the refrigerator for marinating for 2-5 hours, and preferably overnight. The longer the chicken is marinated, the tastier and more fragrant the finished dish will be. During pickling, you can mix the shins a couple of times so that they are soaked with sauce evenly from all sides.
We transfer the pickled legs together with the sauce into a baking dish. We use any form: Teflon, ceramic or glass.
Put the chicken drumsticks in a preheated 180 degree oven. Bake for 40-50 minutes until golden brown.
We serve chicken drumsticks in soy-honey sauce hot with any side dish or fresh vegetables.
Bon appetit!

You can cook any part of a chicken carcass in soy-honey sauce.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Honey - 400   kcal/100g
  • Ginger - 80   kcal/100g
  • Dry ginger - 347   kcal/100g
  • Pickled ginger - 51   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Soy sauce - 51   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Lemon juice - 16   kcal/100g
  • Paprika - 289   kcal/100g
  • Chicken legs - 158   kcal/100g

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