Balsamic Chicken

This easy chicken recipe can also be referred to as one-pot chicken, it’s that simple! It has a delicious and thick balsamic sauce with pungent smell mixed with garlic. Enjoy with a side of brussel sprouts, green beans, or other vegetable side of your choice!

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The chicken I decided to use for this recipe was chicken thighs, not only because I personally like dark meat over white, since it is darker, it is usually moister, and boneless thighs are usually thinner than boneless chicken breast.

I also am going to start posting a poem per post from now on, so here’s the next one: (if you hate poetry, skip to recipe below)

This poem is actually food related in some sense, as it is an unrealistic and humorous account of the ‘danger’ of microwaves:

 

Microwaves Are Harmful POEM

By Michael Metzler Jr.

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Microwaves are harmful,

Don’t let anyone fool you,

They are full of electricity,

And worst of all; the flu

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But more than anything else

Microwaves are inactive

In good consumer reports

And also radioactive

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So if you dare put food

In this hazardous box of metal

You may as well try something different

Perhaps munch on a rose petal

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For if you use this thing

And from it hot food eat,

You are as good as dead

As an unused brown golf cleat.

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So if you own a microwave

If you bought it from a store

Please just throw it away at once

And we won’t bug you more.

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So for your information,

In case you want to clap,

Please try our new product:

A brand new Food-o-Zap!

 

End.

 

Recipe below:

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Sweet Teriyaki Sauce

This Sweet & Thick Teriyaki Sauce is a great Asian sauce that works with almost any Asian food.

It works well as a baste for grilling things, and even a marinade.

It also works good on fish, making a plain fish (like mahi-mahi or salmon) more flavorful.

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INGREDIENTS:

⅓ cup soy sauce

⅓ cup water

⅓ cup brown sugar

¼ cup avocado oil

1 tablespoon white wine vinegar

1 tablespoon cornstarch

 

DIRECTIONS:

In a small bowl, thoroughly mix all ingredients (except for cornstarch) together.

Pour mixture into a medium/small skillet over medium heat, and bring to a boil.

Put cornstarch into a small bowl. Pour a bit of the boiling mixture into the cornstarch bowl, and mix until homogeneous.

Pour the resulting substance back into the skillet, and stir until all combined. Boil a bit more, and then turn to low, and continue to cook, while stirring until the mixture becomes thick like syrup.

Remove from heat and use as a baste, and/or a sauce for your fish (salmon, mahi-mahi, etc.)

Store in the fridge, and heat before using.

See my original post of this recipe on instructables.

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Drunken Chicken: Easy White Wine Chicken

Drunken chicken is a perfect dinner to make if you have limited time to make dinner. It is easy to make, and very flavorful.

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Cook time: 1:15 hrs.  Serves: 4

Ingredients:

1 (2lb) package drumsticks (or other dark meat chicken)

1/2 white onion

8 ounces of mushrooms (more or less depending on preference)

Salt, pepper

3 cloves garlic

3/4 cup white wine

 

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Roughly cut onion, and place on the bottom of a 9×13 baking dish.

Pour in pre cut mushrooms.

Mince garlic and set aside.

Rinse raw chicken in the sink, then place on top of onions and mushrooms in the baking dish.

Sprinkle minced garlic over chicken, and salt and pepper them.

Then pour white wine evenly over the chicken.

Cover with foil and bake in preheated oven for 1 hour, then raise temperature to 400, and take foil off, and cook for another 15 minutes, until chicken is brown.

Serve with white rice.

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