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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Brown Sugar Garlic Chicken


So I'd realized that I'd been doing desserts a lot so I decided to try a dinner item that I had floating around on my Pinterest. I saw this recipe for Brown Sugar Garlic Chicken, and anything with garlic catches my boyfriend's attention.

So all you need for this recipe is olive oil, brown sugar, garlic, and chicken breasts. That's it! Plain and simple.


First, preheat your oven to 500 degrees (because that takes FOREVER) and put your thawed chicken into a greased baking dish. Now the original recipe called for four boneless skinless chicken breasts, and somehow I ended up about five thinly sliced ones, so I just ended up cooking it for a shorter amount of time.



So if you're using fresh garlic like me, you're going to want to peel it as so:

1) Smash it with the flat side of you knife
2) Peel the outer part off
And peeling fresh garlic is just that simple! So next you're going to want to chop up the garlic in to small pieces.


Next you're going to heat up a couple of tablespoons of olive oil in a frying pan and then add the garlic in.


You're going to let the garlic cook for a couple of minutes (until it's soft) then you add in the brown sugar.


Make sure you stir it all up and then spread it on top of the chicken, then sprinkle it with a little salt and pepper. And put it in the oven. I put mine in the oven for 15 minutes because they were so thin, but the original recipe said to put it in for 20 minutes. It just depends on how thick your chicken is.


Now my one complaint with this recipe was based on the pictures from where I got the recipe, I expected my chicken to come out looking like this:


Looks really good right? Well this is how my chicken ended up looking:


Yeah... it didn't turn out looking as appetizing as I had hoped it would. But it actually did taste really good. I'll probably make it again, just because it has so few ingredients and is super easy to make. Plus I had this little cutie visiting us and following me around the kitchen

There's no better way to end than
with a cute dog picture
Brown Sugar Garlic Chicken

4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
4 cloves of garlic
4 tablespoons of brown sugar
3 tablespoons of olive oil

Instructions
Preheat oven to 500

Grease baking dish and place chicken breasts in it

Chop garlic and cook in olive oil until soft

Add brown sugar to garlic and olive oil, mix well

Spread mixture on top of chicken and sprinkle salt and pepper on top

Bake for about 20 minutes

Refrigerate leftovers



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