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Forbidden City Chicken

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  • Servings: 2
  • Prep: 15m
  • Cook: 1h
    • The following recipe serves 2 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 3/4 cup soy sauce
  • 2 tablespoons butter, melted
  • 1 tablespoon curry powder
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1 clove garlic, crushed
  • 2 dashes Tabasco sauce
  • 2 pounds chicken, whole (small broiler chicken, or 1-2 Cornish hens)
  • Sesame seeds
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Halve the chicken or Cornish hens.

  • Step 2: Arrange halves skin side up in one layer in a baking pan.

  • Step 3: In a bowl, mix together everything but the sesame seeds.

  • Step 4: Spread the mixture over the chicken and chill for one hour (I froze it at this point. Remember, if you are freezing this raw, you must use FRESH chicken, not frozen, defrosted chicken!)

  • Step 5: Preheat oven to 325ºF. Sprinkle some sesame seeds over the chicken and bake uncovered for one hour until chicken is golden (I would say less time for chicken breasts, may have to cover loosely to avoid drying out. This sounds like it would be good grilled too!)

  • Step 6: NOTE:

  • Step 7: I only marinate the chicken for 20 - 30 minutes. If you are freezing this.....freeze the marinade separately

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