{"id":26491,"date":"2019-03-18T19:10:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T00:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slimmingeats.com\/blog\/?p=26491"},"modified":"2024-05-26T20:45:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T01:45:34","slug":"chinese-five-spice-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimmingeats.com\/blog\/chinese-five-spice-chicken","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Five Spice Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Simple but delicious sticky Chinese Five Spice Chicken Drumsticks - baked in the oven till golden and packed with flavour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With some chicken drumsticks, de-skinned and ready to cook for dinner, I wanted a simple marinade with plenty of flavours to go this egg fried rice.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kids love the flavour of  Chinese Five Spice, so making it into a sweet marinade I just knew would get a thumbs up from the kids and these sure were a perfect hit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Usually, for a sticky sauce of some kind, sugar or honey is needed, but trying to be a little healthier for tonight's dinner. I decided to sweeten the marinade using some dried dates. They work perfect and turn this sauce into an amazing syrup that flavours the chicken beautifully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I use my handy little Kitchenaid Mini Food Processor<\/a><\/strong> to whizz up all the ingredients for the marinade. It's perfect for making pastes for curries and marinades for recipes like this Chinese Five Spice Chicken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, if you don't have a mini food processor or similar, you might want to replace the dates with brown sugar or honey, otherwise, the dates won't be finely chopped enough to make the sticky marinade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have time to let the chicken sit in the marinade for a couple of hours then definitely do, but even when rushed for time, just poured the marinade over the top of the chicken basting at intervals works fine also. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Want some other Chinese Fakeaway Recipes to serve with this Chinese Five Spice Chicken?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n