Asian Honey-Lacquered BBQ Chicken

Name: Asian Honey-Lacquered BBQ Chicken
Yield: makes 4 to 6 servings
Ingredients: 3 pounds chicken leg/thigh quarters (about 4), trimmed of excess skin and fat; 2 tablespoons Cheater Basic Dry Rub (page 45); 1/4 cup honey; 1 tablespoon soy sauce; 1 tablespoon ketchup; 1 garlic clove, minced; 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger; 1 tablespoon rice vinegar; 1 teaspoon dry mustard; 2 tablespoons sesame seeds, toasted (see page 67)

January 24, 2012

Cheating doesn’t mean just opening a bottle. As our provider of primo Tennessee hardwood and traveling philosopher, Jerry Elston, likes to remind us, sometimes you can’t get out of doing the work. Like most bottled barbecue sauces, Asian-style sauces are cheater easy and get the point across. But usually they taste overly sweet and empty, with little going for them besides sugar and soy. Here’s a brush-on honey lacquer for dry-rubbed chicken with real Asian flavor using pantry staples and some freshly grated ginger.

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