What she’d tell you
Four ingredients and twenty-five minutes. When somebody tells me they cannot cook, this is what I teach them first, because it works every single time.
What you need
Written for 4. Change that in the app and the amounts follow.
Tick things off as you get them ready.
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How it goes
Stir the honey, soy sauce and rice vinegar together in a cup. Mince the garlic.
Heat the oil in a wide pan over medium-high. Lay the thighs down skin-side or smooth-side first and leave them alone for 6 minutes.
Turn them, cook 5 minutes more, then scatter in the garlic for 30 seconds.
Pour in the honey mixture. It will bubble hard. Turn the chicken through it for 3 to 4 minutes until the sauce is thick and glossy and clings to the meat.
Scatter sesame seeds over if you have them, and serve with rice.
If you haven’t got it
Honey
maple syrup, near enough the same job
Rice Vinegar
a squeeze of lemon: it is there for sharpness, nothing more
Keeping it
Three days in the fridge, and it is very good cold in a lunchbox.
A hot pan for two minutes, or eat it as it is.
