Char Siu Chicken: 3-Ingredient Easy Dinner Recipe Everyone Loves | July 5, 2025

If you’re craving sweet, sticky, and savory Chinese barbecue chicken, Char Siu Chicken is the dish you need. This iconic Cantonese-style BBQ features tender chicken thighs marinated in a rich blend of soy, hoisin, honey, and five-spice powder. Roasted to caramelized perfection, this is the kind of recipe that transforms simple ingredients into restaurant-quality magic.

Ingredients

For the Chicken:

• 300 grams skin-on, boneless chicken thighs

For the Marinade:

• 1 tbsp honey

• 1 tbsp light soy sauce

• 1 tbsp oyster sauce

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• 1 tbsp hoisin sauce

• 1 tbsp Shaoxing wine (or dry sherry)

• ½ tsp Chinese five-spice powder

• 1 clove garlic, grated

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• ½ tsp sesame oil

• Optional: A few drops of red food coloring (for traditional red tint)

 How to Make Char Siu Chicken

 

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