Baked Soy Ginger Chicken

I haven't had this in a long long time. It's fairly quick and super easy. Make rice in rice cooker, bake chicken and steam veggies while everything else cooks. Perfect for when you gotta bathe a toddler and have dinner on the table ASAP!


Baked Ginger Soy Chicken
(serves 2)

Ingredients:

• 4 bone in chicken thighs
• 1/3 cup soy sauce
• 1/3 cup mirin
• 2 Tbsp sugar
• 2 Tbsp ginger, grated

Directions:

1. Place everything in a large Ziploc bag, squeezing out all the air before zipping up. Massage and marinade for 6 hours or overnight.
2. Preheat oven to 375F.
3. Place chicken thighs, skin side up, on a foil/parchment paper lined baking tray.
4. Bake for 35 minutes. Place aluminum foil on top of chicken thighs if they start to burn.
5. Pour marinade in a small sauce pan and simmer on medium low heat until sauce boils.
6. Serve chicken on rice with sauce drizzled over chicken and a side of steamed veggies.

I experimented by putting a little more sugar in while simmering and accidentally ended up burning it. Teeheehee. Oh well. Lesson learned. I think I might just leave it as is or use a cornstarch slurry to thicken it up next time.