Easy Food Court Bourbon Chicken

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This is the most delicious and easy recipe for Bourbon Chicken- aka Food Court Chicken. A copycat recipe for the bourbon chicken served at many food court Chinese restaurants. This may not be authentic Chinese food, but it is delicious.

Bourbon Chicken is pretty popular in the South and can be found in many mall food courts. You’ll find it at Cajun-themed restaurants and you can even get a big ol’ scoop of it from the Chinese joints.

Easy Food Court Bourbon Chicken

Yield: 8 bowls

Easy Food Court Bourbon Chicken

Easy Food Court Bourbon Chicken

This is the most delicious and easy recipe for Bourbon Chicken- aka Food Court Chicken. A copycat recipe for the bourbon chicken served at many food court Chinese restaurants. This may not be authentic Chinese food, but it is delicious.

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 Tbsp olive oil
  • 2 LB chicken thighs, skinless.
  • 1 tsp ground ginger
  • 1/2 tsp garlic powder
  • 1/4 tsp black pepper (I used 4 turns on the pepper mill)
  • 1/3 Cup soy sauce
  • 1/3 Cup Bourbon (or whatever brown whiskey you have sitting around. Dark rum would probably work too). If you don’t keep alcohol in your house you can substitute apple juice or cranberry juice. If you use juice, use a little less brown sugar. It really is delicious with just apple juice and no Bourbon.
  • 1/2 Cup water
  • 1 Tbsp rice vinegar (white wine vinegar or plain white vinegar would do if you don’t have rice vinegar)
  • 1/2 Cup brown sugar, tightly packed
  • 1 Tbsp cornstarch dissolved in 3 Tbsp cold water

Instructions

Let’s Get Cooking!

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Notes

If you don’t have or don’t want to use whiskey in this recipe simply substitute apple juice. The taste is nearly identical. You may use chicken breast in place of chicken thighs, but the food court in my area definitely uses thighs.

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