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Festive Golden Five-spice Chicken Printer Friendly Copy
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Serves 8 Prep  15 mins Cooking 1h 10 mins Easy  
      My rating rating5

Ingredients

8 chicken thighs and 8 drumsticks, skin on
3 spring onions, shredded, to finish




For the marinade
4 tbsp groundnut oil
4 tbsp Shaohsing rice wine or dry sherry
4 tbsp light soy sauce
4 tbsp clear honey
4 tsp five spice powder


Easily halved
  1. Whisk together the marinade ingredients, put the chicken into a dish, then pour over the marinade, mixing to coat. Cover, then chill for at least 20 mins, or up to a day if you have time.

  2. Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4, and lift the chicken out of the marinade into a roasting tin. Roast for 40 mins, pour over the remaining marinade, then cook for a further 30 mins until golden and sticky. Sprinkle with the spring onion, then serve.

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