Sticky Lemon Chicken
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Use this chicken to create fun tea sandwiches for your family by spreading a light mayonnaise over slices of sourdough bread and add any other favourite fixing.
Ingredients
  • 2 chicken legs
  • 4 green onions, rough chop
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • 2 tbsp fresh peeled ginger
  • 1 lemon (cut in half)
  • 1 cup low sodium soy sauce, such as Tamari
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
  2. Season chicken legs and sear both sides in an well-oiled frying pan.
  3. Once golden brown, remove chicken from frying pan and set aside.
  4. Reduce temperature in the frying pan and add both lemon halves cut-side down and heat through.
  5. Add green onion, garlic, ginger. Continue until you see the lemon turn brown around edges.
  6. Add soy sauce and sugar. With your tongs squeeze juice from the lemons, discard lemons, and stir well.
  7. Add chicken legs back into pan and stir all ingredients together being sure to coat the chicken legs.
  8. Bake chicken legs in the sauce for 30 minutes.
  9. Let cool slightly and pull the chicken meat away from its bone.
  10. Use this chicken to create fun tea sandwiches for your family by spreading a light mayonnaise over slices of sourdough bread and add any other favourite fixing.
Recipe by Alberta Chicken Producers Recipes and Industry Information at https://chicken.ab.ca/sticky-lemon-chicken/