Description
Deliciously glazed chicken breasts with a homemade teriyaki sauce.
Ingredients
Scale
- 4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts
- 1/2 cup soy sauce (Use Gluten-Free Soy Sauce if needed)
- 2/3 cup water
- 1/4 cup Golden Monkfruit Sweetener or sweetener of your choice
- 1 tablespoon minced ginger or fresh grated ginger root
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic or fresh garlic, finely diced
- 2 tablespoons peanut oil
- thinly-sliced green onions for garnish (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F/190C.
- Puree minced garlic and ginger with a mortar and pestle, magic bullet, or food processor.
- Put soy sauce, water, sweetener, ginger puree, and garlic puree in small saucepan and simmer over low heat until reduced to about 2/3 cup. Taste a few times to see when it’s as strong as you like it.
- Trim all visible fat and undesirable parts from chicken breasts. If some pieces are extra thick, trim them on the bottom and save those scraps for homemade chicken stock.
- Heat oil in large non-stick frying pan over medium-high heat and brown chicken about 3-4 minutes per side. It should not be completely cooked through.
- Cut the browned chicken pieces into four lengthwise same-size strips. If some chicken breasts are larger than others, you might cut them into five strips.
- Choose the smallest size casserole dish that will fit all chicken in a single layer. Arrange chicken in dish and brush well with about half the reduced teriyaki sauce.
- Bake chicken about 5 minutes, then remove and brush again with a generous amount of sauce.
- Bake chicken 5 minutes more, then remove and brush with sauce a third time. You can brush with sauce even more frequently if you like.
- Bake chicken about 2-5 minutes more, or until chicken tests 165F/90C in the thickest part when tested with an Instant Read Meat Thermometer.
- When it’s completely cooked and well-glazed with the sauce, serve Baked Teriyaki Chicken hot, garnished with sliced green onions if desired.
- If you have extra sauce, you can re-heat it and serve over the chicken.
Notes
- Use gluten-free soy sauce if necessary.
- Golden Monkfruit Sweetener is a low-calorie sweetener alternative.
- You can adjust the sweetness of the sauce to your preference.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Main Course
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: Japanese
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 chicken breast
- Calories: 300
- Sugar: 3g
- Sodium: 700mg
- Fat: 10g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 30g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 25g
- Cholesterol: 70mg