Yield: 3 people

Caramel Chicken

Vietnamese-style caramel chicken on skillet with sticky, sweet, savory, and mildly spicy caramel sauce. This chicken is so good with steamed rice.

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 lb. (0.4 kg) chicken thighs with skin, deboned
  • 2 tablespoons oil
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1/2 jalapeno, sliced

Marinade:

  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 tablespoon fish sauce
  • black pepper

Caramel Sauce:

  • 1 tablespoon fish sauce
  • 3 tablespoons water
  • 1/2 tablespoon sugar
  • 3 teaspoons rice vinegar or apple cider vinegar

Instructions

  1. Marinate the chicken with the Marinade ingredients for 10 minutes. Mix all the ingredients in the Caramel Sauce in a bowl, set aside.
  2. Heat up a skillet (cast-iron preferred) on medium to high heat. Add 1 tablespoon oil. Pan-fry the chicken (skin side up) until the bottom turns slightly crispy and brown. Repeat the same for the skin, until the skin becomes slightly charred. Transfer the chicken out.
  3. Add the remaining oil into the skillet and add the garlic. Add the chicken into the pan and follow by the Caramel Sauce mixture.
  4. Lower the heat to simmer and continue to cook until the caramel sauce reduces and becomes amber in color. Make sure you turn the chicken a couple of times during cooking.
  5. Add jalapeno and continue to cook for about 1 minute. Dish out and serve immediately with steamed rice.

Notes

To debone chiken thighs, please check out "How to Debone Chicken Thighs."

You may use skinless and boneless chicken thighs.

Nutrition Information

Yield

3

Serving Size

1
Amount Per Serving Calories 444Total Fat 30gSaturated Fat 7gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 23gCholesterol 194mgSodium 1207mgCarbohydrates 9gFiber 0gSugar 7gProtein 36g