Name: Kauai Chicken

Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup soy sauce
• 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 3 tablespoons brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons hoisin sauce
• 1/8 teaspoon garlic salt
• 1 broiler-fryer chicken (3 lbs), skinned and cut into pieces

Instructions:

• Combine soy sauce, sugars, hoisin sauce and garlic salt in a small bowl and blend well
• Arrange chicken pieces in a 7 by 11 inch baking dish, with the meaty portions to the outside
• Pour the soy mixture evenly over the chicken.
• Let marinate for 15 minutes.
• Pour off and reserve the marinade
• Cover chicken with wax paper
• Microwave on HIGH (100%) for 8 minutes
• Turn the chicken over and brush with the reserved marinade
• Microwave, covered, on HIGH for 8 to 9 minutes, or until the meat near the bone is no longer pink when slashed
• Let stand, covered, for 5 minutes before serving

Comments: 9/27/2014 - I used chicken thigh filets, which I skinned but they had bones in them. Gail said she liked it.
2/29/2016 - I used homemade hoisin sauce because the bottles in the store were much larger than I would use in a reasonable time. I served it with steamed broccoli and coconut rice.
2/5/2017 - This meal was almost identical to last year's. However, I mistakenly used a metal baking dish in the microwave. Nothing caught fire!

Source: Sunset Microwave Cook Book, Lane Publishing Co., 1981, page 36

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