The Chicken Legs on National Day

It was National Day on October 1^st, Saturday, the weekend. No Chinese news, no evening party, no holiday, no shopping with friends. I am not someone who called Miss Popular, and I am usually a quiet girl who can hardly enjoy getting together with a large amount of people talking and drinking all the time. However, at that moment, I preferred to stay in a ball or something like that, because the silence appeared when there should be a lot of heat coming made people easily to think of loneliness. All right, it proves I am a really sensitive person. Anyway, what I want to say is when I feel unhappy I treat myself. Food is always the effective medicine for me. So that’s why I baked the chicken legs at weekends.

After that long lead-in, let’s get into our main focus- the chicken legs I made. Don’t ask me about the nationality of this dish, which I am not sure. It’s my first baked dish, so it’s worth remembering. ^_^

Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

6 chicken legs, BBQ source(I didn't buy this, so I make it by myself using the spices of Step 2),honey...

Step1:Cut

Step 1: Cut open the chicken legs.

 I admit the chicken legs look really ugly when they are cut like this, but this step is needed to make the sauce thicken.

Step 2: Marinate the meat overnight.

The spices of source1

If you have the BBQ source, you can put the chicken legs in the source directly overnight. I didn't get it obviously, so I made the source by myself. For testing, I made two kinds of source using different spices.

Chicken legs with source1

For source1, I put the soya source, cooking wine, pepper, bruised ginger, tomato ketchup, sugar, salt and chicken powder in it. I can't tell the accurate amount. One of the biggest difference between Chinese recipe and American recipe is we don't use to give the accurate amount, and we use the words like a little, a few instead.

The spices of source2

For source2, which is more Chinese maybe, I put the soya source, cooking wine, sugar and salt, the same as Source1, and I put crashed chili and cumin powder. We commonly use cumin powder to bake food in China, and you can buy it from Asia Supermarket.
And then, put these things in the fridge for the whole night to make the meat more tasty.

Step 3: Bake the chicken legs.
Take the chicken legs out of the fridge. Then brush the honey on the chicken. Pre-heat the oven to 375°,and put the legs in for one hour. Turn over the legs and brush the honey again in every fifteen minutes.

Step 4: Enjoy.
I prefer those chicken legs with cumin powder in. And the others taste a little sweet, and really need to be improved.
After the two-day long cooking, the loneliness has been put out of my mind already. What's in my mind now? How to improve my dish!