Baked Balsamic Chicken

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Baked Balsamic Chicken
Balsamic Chicken is a baked chicken dinner that’s incredible quick to prepare: just mix balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, honey, sugar and garlic, pour it over chicken and pop it in the oven. And out comes this glorious chicken that’s savoury, tangy, sweet and very, very sticky!

Ingredients
  • 1 kg / 2 lb chicken thighs (5 pieces, bone in, skin on), or drumsticks or wings (any combination) (Note 1)
SAUCE:
  • 1/4 cup (65 ml) balsamic vinegar
  • 2 1/2 tbsp / 50 ml soy sauce , all purpose or light (not dark soy sauce)
  • 1/4 cup (85 g / 65 ml) honey
  • 1/4 cup (45g) brown sugar , loosely packed (Note 2)
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced (or 1 1/2 tsp garlic paste from jar)
Instructions
  • Preheat oven to 180C/350F.
  • Line a baking dish with foil and baking / parchment paper.
  • Mix together Sauce in a bowl.
  • Place chicken in baking dish, skin side down for thighs and wings. Make sure the pan is big enough so the chicken is squished up next to each other (sauce may not reduce enough), but not so large that there is more than 4"/10 cm between every piece of chicken (sauce may reduce too much).
  • Pour over Sauce. Bake 30 minutes. Turn chicken over, spoon over sauce.
  • Bake 20 minutes or until chicken is cooked through. The Sauce should have thickened.
  • Stand for 5 minutes, then spoon Sauce over chicken and serve.
Source: recipetineats.com