Honey Garlic Chicken for a special event

Have you ever tasted Pizza Hut's grilled chicken wings, those which are over $1 for only half of the chicken wing? Yes, it's really expensive, but fear not. If you want to taste it, then why not try my recipe here, i won't say it's exactly the same as Pizza Hut, but it is almost identical, or even better!



Today's Saturday and as promised i am posting something about food, be it introducing nice dishes tasted somewhere, or some recipe i made up myself. What's better is that tomorrow is the biggest day for Chinese, i don't know what the festival is called but you should know what i mean. So, why not try making this for the event.

First let me explain about the sauces:
you need to separate the sauce into two parts; one for marinade and another for coating. In another word, marinade is for before cook while coating is for after cook.

But before i go further, there is one special ingredient i would like to show, that is the teriyaki sauce. This sauce can only be found at the supermarket below the mall. Cos so far, that's the only place i saw it. Don't even try Hua Ho, i search at so many Hua Ho but yet i never spotted one. This is how it almost looks like:



Notice that i said ALMOST, cos the one i used does not have the label-"roasted garlic" and instead of the label-"with" inside the gold oval shape, the one i bought is labeled "Thick".

Important: you must buy the teriyaki sauce like the one above with the label-"Thick" cos otherwise, you will get a watery teriyaki sauce which is unfit for grilling.

Ingredients:

Sauce for marinade
Teriyaki Sauce
little bit of honey
little bit of salt
black pepper
garlic powder

Sauce for coatings
Teriyaki Sauce
lots of honey
black pepper
garlic powder
finely chopped garlic
few drops of cooking oil or butter (optional)
garlic soy sauce (optional)



Steps:
1. Cut the skin where the joint meets, so that you can stretch the chicken wings when grilling.

2. Marinade the wings with the marinade sauce mentioned above. (The reason why only a small amount of honey is added is just to have the chicken absorb the aroma and also adding too much honey in such early stage will make the skin black and burnt due to the sweetness)

3. Grill the wings with oven or anyhow you like, until the wings are about 85% cooked, then use a brush to coat the chicken wings, as much as possible but enough for all and then put it in again for grilling.

4. Make sure while brushing, the chopped garlic should be stick to all wings so that it will taste better and with stronger aroma.

5. Garnish with a little bit of sesame seed and black pepper if you like after taking out. Then ready to be served.

Finished Product:

Sorry for blurry picture

Tips:
The grilling time depends on what kind of oven you use, if you use a direct fire oven, then i would say 10 mins should be enough. But if you use a heat or microwave oven, then it should be about double the time of direct fire.

Just in case you don't know how to judge whether it is cooked or not, you can use a stick to poke into the thickest part of the wings head, if you can poke through it then it should be okay. Otherwise, you can use the stick to poke at the joint between the head and body of the wing, then look at the stick to see if it is still bloody.

Finally if you want it to be more glowy just to be more attractive, then you can crush rock sugar to be added to the coating sauce.

Note
If you can't get the teriyaki sauce i said, then you can replace it with the combination of abalone sauce with oyster sauce, with the proportion of 40:60

If you have try it, then give me some feedback, i would like to know what you think
~~~~ENJOY~~~~