This Hawaiian Shoyu Chicken recipe is easy to make comfort food that takes little effort and made with simple ingredients. This popular dish has a deep mahogany
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❤️ Why you'll love it
Popular Hawaiian Dish: this traditional Hawaiian recipe is a popular chicken dish made on the grill with sweet and spicy flavors.
Easy Recipe: this recipe is very easy to make and is a great meal made on the grill on busy weeknights.
Versatile: It can be served as a main dish over fluffy white rice, or as a sandwich with a side of your favorite potato or macaroni salad.
🥘 Ingredients
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Boneless chicken thighs: you can use either skin-on chicken thighs or remove the chicken skin.
Shoyu sauce: this is a Japanese-style soy sauce
Fresh ginger root
Ground black pepper
Crushed red pepper flakes , (Optional)
Cayenne pepper , (Optional)
Ground paprika , (Optional)
Green onions
🔪 Instructions
- In a large bowl, using a hand whisk, mix together the shoyu sauce, brown sugar, onion, garlic, ginger, pepper, oregano, red pepper flakes (if using), cayenne pepper (if using), and paprika (if using).
- Add the chicken pieces to the soy sauce mixture and cover the bowl with plastic wrap. Refrigerate at least 1 hour.
- Preheat a grill to medium heat. Remove the chicken from the marinade and place on the hot grill. Discard marinade.
- Grill chicken for 15 minutes on each side, until an instant-read thermometer registers 165 degrees F.
- Remove chicken from grill and let rest on serving platter for 10 minutes before serving.
🥄 Equipment
Grill , or grill pan
🥫Storage
Refrigerate: store leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge up to 5 days.
Freeze: store leftovers in a freezer safe, airtight container up to 3 months.
Reheat: warm thawed chicken on the grill or in the microwave until heated through.
📖 Variations
- Place chicken and marinade in the slow cooker and cook on high for 2-3 hours or low for 6 hours.
💭 Tips
- If using bone-in chicken thighs, be sure to purchase a higher meat weight (about 3 pounds) to accomodate for the weight of the bone.
- For best results, if possible, cook the chicken on a hot grill. A grill pan can be used if there are no other options.
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🍽 Serve with...
Serve Shoyu Chicken with a green salad and a side of rice or as a sandwich with a side of potato or macaroni salad.
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📖 Recipe
Shoyu Chicken
Equipment
- grill , or grill pan
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Ingredients
- 2½ pounds boneless skinless chicken thighs
- ½ cup soy sauce
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup water
- ½ medium onion , chopped
- 2 cloves garlic , minced
- ½ tablespoon grated fresh ginger root
- ½ tablespoon ground black pepper
- ½ tablespoon dried oregano
- ½ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes , (Optional)
- ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper , (Optional)
- ½ teaspoon ground paprika , (Optional)
Instructions
- In a large bowl, using a hand whisk, mix together the shoyu sauce, brown sugar, onion, garlic, ginger, pepper, oregano, red pepper flakes (if using), cayenne pepper (if using), and paprika (if using).
- Add the chicken pieces to the soy sauce mixture and cover the bowl with plastic wrap. Refrigerate at least 1 hour.
- Preheat a grill to medium heat. Remove the chicken from the marinade and place on the hot grill. Discard marinade.
- Grill chicken for 15 minutes on each side, until an instant-read thermometer registers 165 degrees F.
- Remove chicken from grill and let rest on serving platter for 10 minutes before serving.
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pigpigscorner says
Looks so inviting!
Chef Dennis says
that is gorgeous chicken....I can only imagine how good that must taste!!
thanks for sharing!
5 Star Foodie says
The combo of sweet & spicy flavors sound terrific, this is a great recipe!
Natalie says
This sounds like a great chicken recipe...and thanks for the link to your profile. I LOVE allrecipes bc of all of its helpful reviews so I'm excited to read through some of yours 🙂
teresa says
allrecipes really is a great site! this looks wonderful, i love that bright color!
bellini valli says
You know how I love chicken Shelby:D
Anna says
It looks so crispy and delicious, love the Japanese flavor. And anything smothered in brown sugar and roasted have to be good, right.
pegasuslegend says
what a great recipe this sounds wonderful!
Mags says
Great looking chicken!
I love recipe sites that give ratings too. It really helps me decide if I'm going to try a recipe or not.
Grumpy and HoneyB says
Thanks Rachelle! I'll add you! I want to see what you've reviewed! LOL
Rachelle @ "Mommy? I'm Hungry!" says
Cool, I added you as a cook I like (Ldylvbgr is me). Luv that site! =)
Lisar says
That does look good. I might try that this weekend.
Heidi says
Yum! I love the sweet/spicy combo on chicken 🙂
Kait says
Yum! I will have to go explore allrecipes.com. I love all the spices in the marinade. Not as garlicy as your last dish 🙂