Chinese Chicken Legs Recipes

Steps:

• Line the bottom of a large baking pan/dish with foil.
• Mix together the first 9 ingredients in a big bowl.
• Add the chicken legs and toss to coat well.
• Place the chicken legs in single layer in the baking pan.
• Spoon any remaining sauce over the chicken.
• Cover loosely with foil and bake in a 400° oven for 20 minutes.
• Remove foil and continue to bake about 20 more minutes or until the chicken is browned and cooked through.
• Sprinkle with sesame seeds and serve chicken with sauce.

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients for the marinade in a zip-lock bag. Add chicken. Marinade overnight.
• Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.
• Line a medium-sized baking pan with aluminum foil and sprinkle the bottom of the pan with salt
• Dump the contents of the bag (including the sauce) into the pan. Arrange the drumsticks so that they are not touching each other.
• Cover pan with aluminum foil and bake for forty-five minutes.
• Remove the top layer of foil and turn the chicken over. Bake for an additional fifteen to twenty minutes, until the top of the chicken is nicely browned.
• Remove from oven.
• I always serve this with white rice, and pour the drippings from the chicken over the rice.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Line bottom of large baking pan with foil.
• Combine scallions, barbecue sauce, soy sauce, oyster sauce, honey, sugar, ginger, chili paste, and garlic in large bowl.
• Add chicken legs and toss till well coated.
• Place chicken in baking pan. Spoon any remaining sauce over chicken. Cover loosely with foil and bake 20 minutes.
• Remove foil, continue baking until chicken is browned and cooked through and sauce is thickened, about 20 minutes longer.
• Sprinkle with sesame seeds.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400*F.
• Line bottom of large baking pan with foil.
• Combine scallions, bbq sauce, soy sauce, oyster sauce, honey, sugar, ginger, chili paste, and garlic in large bowl.
• Add chicken legs and toss until well coated.
• Place chicken in baking pan.
• Spoon remaining sauce over chicken.
• Cover loosely with aluminum foil and bake 20 minute.
• Remove foil, continue baking until chicken is browned and cooked through and sauce is thickened, about 20 more minute.
• Sprinkle with sesame seeds.

Steps:

• Boil 2 cups water, star anise, ginger, and zest in a 1-quart saucepan, covered, 5 minutes, then cool infusion, uncovered, to room temperature, about 30 minutes.
• Stir together kosher salt, Insta Cure, and remaining 4 cups water in storage tub until solids are dissolved, about 3 minutes, then add brown sugar, soy sauce, hoisin sauce, and cooled infusion (with solids). Add ice and stir until cure is cold (ice may not melt completely; keeping liquid cold slows salt absorption).
• Add chicken to cure and weight down with a large plate (to keep submerged). Chill, tub covered with a lid or plastic wrap, 4 to 6 hours.
• Rinse chicken and pat dry, then discard brine.
• Open vents on bottom of grill and on lid. Remove lid and top rack from grill, then center disposable roasting pan on lower rack and add 1 1/2 cups sawdust to pan.
• Light 6 charcoal briquettes in chimney starter. When briquettes are fully lit (covered completely with gray ash and glowing), transfer with tongs to sawdust, spacing evenly.
• When sawdust begins to smolder, replace top rack and arrange chicken legs on rack about 1 inch apart. Cover grill with lid, then insert thermometer into a vent hole in lid to monitor air temperature, which should be 80 to 120°F. (If temperature rises above 120°F, remove 1 or more briquettes or uncover grill slightly until temperature falls. If temperature falls below 80°F or sawdust stops burning, light 1 more briquette and add to sawdust.)
• Smoke chicken, adding 1 1/2 cups sawdust to roasting pan and stirring with tongs every 1 1/2 hours to ignite unburned sawdust, 6 hours. (Chicken will not be cooked.)
• Put oven rack in middle of oven and preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly oil an 11- by 17-inch roasting pan. Transfer smoked chicken, skin sides up, to pan and bake until the thickest part of a thigh registers 170°F on thermometer, about 25 minutes. Cool completely, uncovered, then chill, wrapped in plastic wrap, until ready to serve.