American

Shoyu Chicken

Name: Shoyu Chicken
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2.5 lb bone-in chicken thighs; 1/2 cup soy sauce; 1/2 cup water; 1/3 cup brown sugar; 4 garlic cloves; 2 tbsp fresh ginger, grated; 2 green onions; 1 tsp sesame oil; 3 cups, cooked white rice

Paul @paul_northshore

Shoyu Chicken is American home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

45 min Easy Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2.5 lb bone-in chicken thighs
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup water
1/3 cup brown sugar
4 garlic cloves
2 tbsp fresh ginger, grated
2 green onions
1 tsp sesame oil
3 cups, cooked white rice

How to cook it

Combine the soy sauce, water, brown sugar, garlic, and ginger in a wide pot and bring to a simmer.
Add the chicken thighs skin side down, cover, and simmer over medium-low heat, turning occasionally, until cooked through, about 25 minutes.
Uncover and simmer until the sauce reduces to a sticky glaze that coats the chicken, another 10 minutes.
Stir in the sesame oil off the heat.
Slice the chicken, spoon the glaze over the top, scatter with sliced green onion, and serve over the rice.

Watch how to cook Shoyu Chicken

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Serve it with

A American dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Shoyu Chicken, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Buttered Corn
  
  8 min
What it is eaten with
- Baked Potato
  
  60 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Shoyu Chicken carries gluten, soy, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Shoyu Chicken
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	Yes	Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
Fish	No
Sesame	Yes	Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 550 kcal
Protein: 48 g
Carbs: 45 g
Fat: 20 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 14 g
Sodium: 1450 mg
Saturated fat: 5 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Shoyu Chicken takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.