Ginger Garlic Baked Chicken
Asian ginger garlic baked chicken marinated with ginger, garlic, soy sauce and honey. Quick and delicious recipe that calls for simple ingredients.
Ginger garlic baked chicken is one of those chicken dishes that I make when I wanted to have a quick and easy home cooked meal but too lazy to fire up a wok, or I don’t want to cook up a storm in the kitchen. It’s one of the easiest chicken recipes to make. The chicken always turn out tender, moist, and juicy. I could practically eat all the chicken drumsticks in one go, with its super delicious, sticky sweet and savory sauce.
I started making ginger garlic baked chicken when I first came to the US many years ago for graduate school. I was always the designated cook in the apartment, and chicken drumsticks were always on sale in the supermarkets at the college town. For $0.99 a lb, I could load up a 5 lb pack of chicken drumsticks for less than $5.00! What’s more, I am partial to chicken, especially the tender, juicy, meaty chicken drumsticks.
This ginger garlic baked chicken recipe is Asian-flavored. I used soy sauce, oyster sauce, sesame oil, white pepper, and honey to marinate the chicken before baking them in the oven. I also added a little bit of Chinese five-spice powder to give it a sweet aroma of the spices. If you don’t have the five-spice powder, you can always skip it, but it’s a good item to stock in your pantry. All the other ingredients of soy sauce, oyster sauce (buy Lee Kum Kee brand), sesame oil, white pepper can be easily found at any regular supermarkets these days. If you can’t find white pepper, you can always use black pepper and it will work just fine.
These ginger garlic baked chicken is a comfort food to me. It reminds me of those days when I was a frugal and poor international student in the Midwest of America. Those days were long gone, but the taste of the ginger garlic baked chicken continues to please the palate of my family, and even my little picky eater loves this wonderful tasting baked chicken.
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Duday
Hi! Just want to ask if I can use ready made garlic&ginger paste? How many tsp/tbsp I’m going to put?
And did u put any garnish in the chicken? I mean what’s that green thing u garnish in the chicken. Thank you for sharing your recipe. It really looks delicious. I’m planning to make it on my daughter’s birthday.
Rasa Malaysia
You can try but I think it won’t be as great. The garnish is just for photography purposes.
Marisa Ramirez
I am excited to try this and some of your other recipes. I have a small foodie Facebook page, where I try out recipes, take my own picture of what I cooked, along with a link directly to the recipe. May I please have your permission to do this with your recipes?
Thank you and I’m so excited to try out your amazing recipes!
Rasa Malaysia
Hi Marisa, of course thanks for asking! :)
Karen
I want to bake some very crispy chicken wings and I would like to use the ginger garlic as a dipping sauce instead of a marinade. Will the marinade taste good as a sauce to dip the wings into or to pour on top of the wings?
Rasa Malaysia
Yes you can mix the sauce together, heat it up and use it as dipping sauce, but it’s best that you marinate.
Albert
Very simple recipe but a very tasty result. I’ve made these as prescribed, and watched in amazement as the drumsticks disappeared one by one between lunch and dinner time one Sunday.
Thank you for this recipe!
Aimi
This is my all time favourite chicken recipe for Nasi Ayam. Usually I fry the chicken to get that crispy skin first, then oven baked for a while.
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