September, like the new year in January, brings about a sense of renewal, a fresh start, and definitely the overall theme of organizing and getting into a routine. Unlike January, the weather is still beautiful and families are out and about more. Yes, September is all about busy!
September is National Honey Month! To celebrate this Sweet September, Billy Bee honey is bringing sweet tips and recipes to your kitchen, just in time for the back-to-school season (www.billybee.ca).
Preparing for back to school, I have been stocking my freezer and preparing my go-to recipe lists for busy weeknights and downtime on weekends. Recently, we started utilizing chicken thighs in recipes instead of my usual chicken breast meals. There are ample baked chicken thighs recipes out there, but I’m still grilling while we can! Here is our family’s Savoury Asian BBQ Chicken Thighs recipe – if you love BBQ but have kids who don’t like anything spicy, try this sauce next time. The nutty flavour from the sesame seed oil is a nice compliment to the deliciously sweet honey flavour in this sauce. No need to add brown sugar to this BBQ sauce when you have 100% pure and natural Billy Bee honey!
A tip for grilling with this sauce – grill the chicken thighs without any sauce first and only add the sauce in the last few minutes of cooking time. This BBQ sauce can be made a few hours ahead of time to allow the flavours to blend. In the cooler months, marinating the chicken before baking would be wonderful – but during grilling season, save the sauce for the end.
- 8-16 boneless chicken thighs
- ½ cup vinegar (rice vinegar is best for this recipe, but I've used white wine or basic vinegar as well)
- ⅓ cup light soy sauce
- ¼ cup toasted sesame oil
- 5 Tbsp Billy Bee liquid honey
- 3 Tbsp Thai Kitchen Sweet Red Chili sauce
- 1 Tbsp minced garlic
- Chopped green onion or chives
- Whisk together the vinegar, soy sauce, sesame seed oil, honey, sauce and minced garlic in a bowl. Set aside for an hour or more if possible.
- Trim fat from chicken thighs and grill.
- In the last few minutes of grilling, baste both sides of the chicken well with the sauce.
- Plate and top with chopped chives or green onions (optional).
If you like a spicier sauce, consider adding some thai chillis (a little goes a long way) or even some red pepper flakes.
Honey is a great pantry staple, useful in recipes like this or even every day use because of its truly unique flavour and natural character (I love it with peanut butter on toast!). Look for more recipes at flavour.ca and celebrate National Honey Month with something delicious!
These chicken thighs look delicious and I am definitely going to follow your recipe! I also could not agree more as afar as the honey goes., I love it on my yogurt, in my smoothies and on my toast!
This recipe sound really good, would just have to substitute Chicken Breast for my family. Thanks, will give it a try!
We eat a lot of chicken breast here too – chicken thighs are new on our BBQ but so far I like it once in awhile for a change!
My mouth watered just looking at that photo. This recipe sounds delicious! I really don’t use honey enough, which is surprising, as I love it.
Same here, it’s such a great sweetener so it can be substituted in many recipes. More to come!
Those chicken thighs looks good. I like the sweetness is from the honey.
Awesome sounding recipe – simple sauce, which is perfect 🙂
A great recipe, will have to try it.
oh this just looks amazing!! I thank you so much for sharing it!!
that looks super delicious
I think I would love to try this recipe but with chicken wings! 🙂
Ohhh that would be good!
That chicken looks so good! Will have to look for that Thai Kitchen Sweet Red Chili sauce and try this recipe
This looks so tasty, something my family would really enjoy!
I love the taste of sesame oil and rice vinegar, so I can just imagine how good this dish is, I’m going to have to make these up one night for supper, they got my mouth watering now!!
We love chicken in our house and this would be a new way of doing it. thanks for sharing. This looks really good.
Will have to look for that Thai Kitchen Sweet Red Chili sauce and give this recipe a try it looks delicious
These look so yummy!
mmm mm wow do these ever look amazing! love the touch of honey. i have never added that to my chicken before!
now that my local store has sesame oil should have no problems making this
Yum, they sound delicious. I love meat that’s cooked with honey to make it sweet.
Yummy A great recipe, will have to try it.
A lot of people want to substitute chicken thighs with breast. However, breast meat tend to be bland and dry. May not get the same results.
Mouth watering……all this flavor!!! Gotta try this one!
Yummm, this looks great! Any recipe that incorporates honey I’m all for!
You always have the best recipes, printed this one too, looks like a must try. Thanks for sharing!
Yum, these look delish! I’m always on the hunt for new chicken recipes!
I have used this recipe many times for chicken and pork. One time had leftovers (astonishingly!) and used the meat shredded into your Thai lettuce cups recipe. Not one complaint about this delicious recipe!
Has anyone cooked in oven. If so what temp and how long.
These look crazy Good! I have all ingredients on hand. I think this is on the Menu for tomorrow night! Pinned it! Thanks for the inspiration
This sounds so amazing! I love recipes like this because chicken is my personal favorite.
So I made this and it was awesome! Except I did it in the oven on convection roast,dark bottom pan every 10 min I basted the chicken (400 degrees). The one thing I did was marinaded the thighs for 1 hour. Looked and I hope tasted exactly like the picture. Served it with white rice and an Asian chopped salad. 5 *’s
Sounds absolutely perfect Monica!