EASY CHINESE OVEN BARBECUED CHICKEN

Easy Chinese Oven Barbecued Chicken image

Provided by @MakeItYours

Number Of Ingredients 15

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For Sauce:
1 Tbl. butter
1 tsp. sesame oil
2 cloves garlic, finely minced
1/2 Tbl. very finely minced fresh ginger
1 Tbl. finely chopped onion
1/2 cup sweet thick barbecue sauce as Sweet Baby Ray's Original
1/4 cup hoisin sauce
1 Tbl. chili paste sauce
1 Tbl. soy sauce
1/2 tsp. rice vinegar
1/2 tsp.sriracha
For Chicken:
3 leg-thigh chicken quarters (or six medium-sized pieces chicken), bone in-skin on
1/3 cup* zesty Italian v/o-style salad dressing (not creamy), my homemade preferably or one such as Wishbone's Zesty Robust, (enough to coat both sides well)

Steps:

For Chicken: In shallow glass pan or ziplock baggie, add chicken pieces and italian dressing.If using a baking dish, coat undersides, turn and coat tops. If using a baggie, squish around to coat each side well. Cover with lid or foil, pop into fridge and marinate overnight for best results. (*Several hours ok, too).
For Barbecue Sauce: While chicken marinates, make sauce by adding butter and sesame oil into a small saucepan and heat over medium, add garlic, ginger and onion, lower heat to low, and sauté for 5 minutes, stirring ocaisinally. Add rest of Sauce ingredients, stir to combine well, and cook for 1 - 2 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside to cool.
Once chicken has marinated, preheat oven to 350º F and remove chicken from fridge. Let chicken sit out for 20 -30 minutes while oven fully preheats. Place into sprayed foil-lined baking dish pretty side down, coat the back sides with a little less than half of the sauce, turn pieces over so pretty side is up. (Do not coat tops yet). Pop into oven and bake for 35 minutes. Remove from oven, coat tops with slightly less than half of the sauce coating well using all of it. Pop back into oven and bake, uncovered, for 20 - 25 more minutes or until chicken is done through.
Place onto serving platter and garnish with a sprinkling of toasted sesame seeds and snipped green onion if desired.