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Bourbon Chicken (Mall Classic)

Seared chicken thighs glazed in a sticky bourbon-soy sauce with a hit of Maple Bourbon BBQ sauce — the food court classic, done from scratch.

sweet🍗 Serves 4 🍯 Sweet 🍚 Serve over rice
Bourbon chicken over fried rice, glazed and garnished with green onion

Instructions

  1. Season the chicken

    Season the chicken pieces with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and onion powder.

  2. Sear

    Sear the chicken in a hot pan until nicely browned. Remove and set aside.

  3. Build the sauce

    In the same pan, add the bourbon, soy sauce, apple juice, garlic, ginger, brown sugar, Maple Bourbon BBQ sauce, hoisin, ketchup, and red pepper flakes. Simmer until slightly thickened.

  4. Combine

    Return the chicken to the sauce and simmer until glossy and coated.

  5. Thicken (optional)

    For extra stickiness, stir in the cornstarch slurry.

  6. Serve

    Serve over rice, garnished with green onions and toasted sesame seeds if desired.

Uses the Maple Bourbon BBQ Sauce

The Maple Bourbon BBQ Sauce adds real depth here — worth having a batch on hand.

Why it tastes like the mall

Apple juice gives that classic mall-food-court sweetness.