How To Make Caramel Chicken
Caramel chicken has lovely Asian-inspired flavors. Garlic and ginger give the brown sugar sauce of this dish a fresh zing.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 4chicken breasts,boneless skinless
- 2tbspvegetable oil
- 8clovesgarlic,peeled
- ⅓cuplight brown sugar,packed
- ¼cuprice vinegar
- ½cupwater
- 2ginger,peeled, ¼-inch thick slices
- 1cuplow sodium chicken broth
- ¼cupreduced sodium soy sauce
- 2scallions,thinly sliced for garnish
Instructions
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In a large skillet heat oil over medium high heat. Season chicken with salt and cook until golden brown on each side until crisp and cooked through. Transfer to a plate and set aside.
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Add garlic cloves to skillet and cook for 2 minutes until golden brown. Transfer to the plate of chicken.
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Return pot to medium high heat and carefully pour water, scraping down the browned bits. Whisk in the brown sugar until dissolved.
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Cook for 4 minutes until mixture turns a deep amber color. Carefully add vinegar and stir to dissolve.
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Add ginger, garlic, broth and soy sauce. Bring cooking liquid to a boil and whisk occasionally. This takes about 10 minutes.
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Once glaze is ready, turn heat to medium low and return chicken to pan until heated through.
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Serve over rice and garnish with scallions or green onions if desired.
Nutrition
- Calories: 463.78kcal
- Fat: 23.77g
- Saturated Fat: 5.27g
- Trans Fat: 0.24g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 11.91g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 4.77g
- Carbohydrates: 21.33g
- Fiber: 1.03g
- Sugar: 12.63g
- Protein: 40.00g
- Cholesterol: 111.36mg
- Sodium: 712.04mg
- Calcium: 59.19mg
- Potassium: 676.13mg
- Iron: 2.11mg
- Vitamin A: 45.51µg
- Vitamin C: 4.78mg
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