looking for a Bourbon chicken recipe

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Chet, if you do a Google search for "bourbon chicken" you will come up with a number of recipes. The
recipes will probably not have as much fat, sugar and sodium as they use in the mall-- to judge from
the way it tastes. Same with chicken teriyaki at the mall. You might want to try a standard recipe
and then, if you think it needs goosing up, experiment with adding brown sugar or even that bottled
jack daniels barbecue sauce. Naomi D.

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: I have been down to the King of Prussia Mall in PA, they have a
food
: court there and this oriental stand has what they call Bourbon
Chicken,
: it looks to be a baked small pcs of chicken is a browm liquidy
bourbon
: sauce that is out of this world. anyone ever come accross a
recipe of
: this type done up with chicken.
:
: Chet
: =========

Yep. My recipe is for Cornish Hens but you could easily swap out the hens for chicken. This comes
from "That Special Touch" It's a cookbook of recipes using Maker's Mark bourbon and written by
Sandra Davis.

6 (1#) Cornish Hens Salt & Pepper for seasoning
7/2 c Butter, melted
8/4 c Honey
9/2 c Maker's Mark (fabulous Kentucky bourbon)

Remove giblets from hens and reserve for another use. Rinse hens with cold water, pat dry. Sprinkle
cavity of each with salt and pepper.

Place hens, breast side up in shallow baking pan; use 1/4 cup melted butter for the first basting of
hens; bake at 350 F. for 1 - 1 1/2 hours (test for doneness.)

Combine the remaining 1/2 cup butter, honey and bourbon; brush on hens every 15 minutes of cooking
time until hens are tender.

The recipe continues where it gives the details of Cranberry Pecan Stuffing that is recommended to
serve with the above Cornish Hens.

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You might want to try a standard recipe and then, if you think it needs goosing up, experiment
with adding brown sugar or even that bottled jack daniels barbecue sauce. Naomi D.

Have you ever really tasted that bottled JD sauce? Yuck.

I too would like a GOOD and TRIED by a human being with a sense of taste Bourbon Chicken recipe.
Maybe a knock off of Golden Coral?

Laura B.

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Thalocean said:

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You might want to try a standard recipe and then, if you think it needs goosing up, experiment
with adding brown sugar or

even

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that bottled jack daniels barbecue sauce. Naomi D.

Have you ever really tasted that bottled JD sauce? Yuck.

Well, please keep in mind that the OP was asking about how to duplicate "bourbon chicken" sold in
malls. I have tasted that bourbon chicken and I think it's chock-a-block with things you wouldn't
use at home.

Naomi D.

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Well, please keep in mind that the OP was asking about how to duplicate "bourbon chicken" sold in
malls. I have tasted that bourbon chicken and I think it's chock-a-block with things you wouldn't
use at home.

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Naomi D.

I realize that. I just thought I'd take advantage of the thread hoping to get a good recipe. Maybe
if we just keep the thread going someone will post one? ;-)

Laura B.

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I just thought I'd take advantage of the thread hoping to get a good recipe. Maybe if we just keep
the thread going someone will post one? ;-)

Laura B.

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Hi ! Do you know how to use Google? It is full of bourbon chicken recipes--just type in the Search
Box.I did it for you this time, (smile); google.comsearchOpen ↗
1&q=recipe+bourbon+chicken& btnG=Google+Search

Why is it that every time someone asks for a recipe on a cooking group, someone sends them to
Google?? Has it ever occured to anyone that what requesters want is a TRIED recipe? Something that
someone has used and knows tastes good?

What good is doing a google search and getting 100s of hits and STILL not knowing which one to try?

cc said:

Why is it that every time someone asks for a recipe on a cooking group, someone sends them to
Google?? Has it ever occured to anyone that what requesters want is a TRIED recipe? Something that
someone has used and knows tastes good?

What good is doing a google search and getting 100s of hits and STILL not knowing which
one to try?

Well, if you google on rec.food.cooking, you will generally find recipes people have posted here.
Recipes they have tried. Sometimes people ask for the same recipe over and over and people get tired
of answering the same question.

nancy

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cc said:

Why is it that every time someone asks for a recipe on a cooking group, someone sends them to
Google?? Has it ever occured to anyone that what requesters want is a TRIED recipe? Something
that someone has used and knows tastes good?

What good is doing a google search and getting 100s of hits and STILL not knowing which one
to try?

Well, if you google on rec.food.cooking, you will generally find recipes people have posted here.
Recipes they have tried. Sometimes people ask for the same recipe over and over and people get
tired of answering the same question.

nancy

Than don't answer.

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cc said:

Why is it that every time someone asks for a recipe on a cooking group, someone sends them to
Google?? Has it ever occured to anyone that what requesters want is a TRIED recipe? Something
that someone has used and knows tastes good?

What good is doing a google search and getting 100s of hits and STILL not knowing which one to
try?

Well, if you google on rec.food.cooking, you will generally find recipes people have posted
here. Recipes they have tried. Sometimes people ask for the same recipe over and over and people
get tired of answering the same question.

nancy

Than don't answer.

--
Peter Aitken

Don't look at me, I've never told anyone to google.

nancy

When someone asks for a recipe that I don't have, I generally Google this group and post the result
link. Google is not the answer to all questions. First you need a suitable search string. Sometimes
you need to get the wording just right because it will return a lot of "bad" results. Not everyone
knows how to encourage Google to leave out irrelevant links by using (or not using) specific words.
Rather than say "use Google, leave me alone" I try to be a little more helpful.

I know you don't do this, I am just replying to the thread in general.

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Me either, but I might post a bunch of websites from Copernic.

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cc wrote:
>
> Why is it that every time someone asks for a recipe on a cooking group, someone sends them
> to Google?? Has it ever occured to anyone that what requesters want is a TRIED recipe?
> Something that someone has used and knows tastes good?
>
> What good is doing a google search and getting 100s of hits and

STILL

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> not knowing which one to try?

Well, if you google on rec.food.cooking, you will generally find recipes people have posted
here. Recipes they have tried. Sometimes people ask for the same recipe over and over and
people get tired of answering the same question.

nancy

Than don't answer.

--
Peter Aitken

Don't look at me, I've never told anyone to google.

nancy

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Why is it that every time someone asks for a recipe on a cooking group, someone sends them to
Google?? Has it ever occured to anyone that what requesters want is a TRIED recipe? Something that
someone has used and knows tastes good?

What good is doing a google search and getting 100s of hits and STILL not knowing which
one to try?

It's in the wording of the question. If someone asks simply 'got a recipe for [your dish here]?,
they're more likely to get the surly google eye from most here. The same question, better phrased as
'there are hundreds of recipes for [your dish here]; what have you tried and what do you like about
it?' would fetch better response. Or something like that. Just asking the first example doesn't
imply any 'homework' done on the part of the questioning poster.

Most of the time it's some lazy, just lie there in bed kinda bozo who just wants to push a button
and have everyone else do the work. Hence the surl. Me, if I give em a recipe, I usually double
the salt ;-P

Jack Surlytable

cc said:

Why is it that every time someone asks for a recipe on a cooking group, someone sends them to
Google?? Has it ever occured to anyone that what requesters want is a TRIED recipe? Something that
someone has used and knows tastes good?

What good is doing a google search and getting 100s of hits and STILL not knowing which
one to try?

About the same as asking on a newsgroup, getting a dozen recipes and STILL not knowing which
one to try.

I'm interested in tweaking recipes. Someone will say something to the effect of "I tried this, but
it came out too that; what should I do?"

I like recipes with a personal touch, some note along the lines of "my family likes this recipe
because it satisfies my son's desire for something vegetarian and my daughter's sweet tooth," or a
note about how a meal can be made easier to clean up after or something about what can be done ahead
of time or how to make a nice presentation or how to transport it to a potluck. As far as I'm
concerned, that's usenet's forte, not just copying down a bunch of recipes. For that reason, I like
questions that ask "what fits this category that's fast (or inexpensive or uses up certain extra
ingredients).

--Lia

Okay, I took the Google suggestion one step further, and added '+ Shopping Mall' to the search
string. The following recipe, untried by me, popped up. I hope this helps. I'm certainly going
to try it!

Paul in Massachusetts

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Cook's Corner, from The Miami Herald (Posted on Thu, Jan. 01, 2004)

Q: I would like to have a recipe for bourbon chicken like you get at the mall, preferably in time
for a Mardi Gras party.

from Lucy, via e-mail

R: We get requests for a copy-cat bourbon chicken recipe all the time. I've tried a few of the many
versions on the Internet, but have found the bourbon taste too pronounced.

Some recipes say bourbon doesn't even belong in the recipe and that the title refers to Bourbon
Street in New Orleans. I'm partial to that theory since I can't imagine fast-food restaurants using
an expensive ingredient like bourbon.

At any rate, after much experimentation, I've come up with a recipe that pleases my bourbon-chicken
loving son. You can easily multiply the recipe to serve a crowd.

Recipe follows, below.

* * * * *

Bourbon Chicken

4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, or 8 skinless, boneless chicken thighs (1 to 1 ¼
pounds total)
1/3 cup soy sauce ½ medium onion, chopped very fine ½ cup packed brown sugar ¼ cup bourbon or to
taste 1 clove garlic, minced fine 1 teaspoon ground ginger

Dice chicken into bite-size pieces and place in a single layer in a glass baking dish. In a small
bowl, combine the soy sauce, onion, brown sugar, bourbon, garlic and ginger. Pour over chicken.
Cover and refrigerate at least 6 hours and preferably overnight, turning chicken several times.

Heat oven to 325 degrees. Uncover pan and bake chicken, basting with pan juices several times, for 1
hour, until meat is cooked through and nicely browned. Serve with rice. Makes 4 servings.

Per serving: 291 calories (5 percent from fat), 1.5 g fat (0.4 g saturated, .4 g monounsaturated),
68.4 mg cholesterol, 29.7 g protein, 30.3 g carbohydrates, 0.5 g fiber, 1,276 mg sodium.

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Quoted message said:

You might want to try a standard recipe and then, if you think it needs goosing up, experiment
with adding brown sugar or

even

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

that bottled jack daniels barbecue sauce. Naomi D.

Have you ever really tasted that bottled JD sauce? Yuck.

I too would like a GOOD and TRIED by a human being with a sense of taste Bourbon Chicken recipe.
Maybe a knock off of Golden Coral?

Laura B.

Let me add this to my own posting:

Whenever I have seen this popular dish prepared in shopping mall food courts, I noticed that the
cook takes out a pre-packaged portion of marinated chicken bits, marinade, etc., in a single zip-
lock type baggie. She or he then empty the serving into a very hot wok or griddle and proceeds to
stir-fry the living Christ out of it, browning it and allowing it just enough time to sizzle the
juices down to a thick glop and cooking the chicken bits completely through (I hope!) So, I'd say
dice the chicken into bits that are small enough to cook thoroughly in a few minutes in a stir-fry
environment.

The recipe I found and posted calls for the mixture to be baked, but I'd be more inclined to use it
as a jumping-off spot and chuck it into a hot wok.

Hey, it's a start!

Paul (still frozen) in Massachusetts

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Okay, I took the Google suggestion one step further, and added '+ Shopping Mall' to the search
string. The following recipe, untried by me, popped

up.

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I hope this helps. I'm certainly going to try it!

Paul in Massachusetts

* * * * *

Cook's Corner, from The Miami Herald (Posted on Thu, Jan. 01, 2004)

Q: I would like to have a recipe for bourbon chicken like you get at the mall, preferably in time
for a Mardi Gras party.

from Lucy, via e-mail

A: We get requests for a copy-cat bourbon chicken recipe all the time.

I've

Quoted message said:

tried a few of the many versions on the Internet, but have found the

bourbon

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taste too pronounced.

Some recipes say bourbon doesn't even belong in the recipe and that the title refers to Bourbon
Street in New Orleans. I'm partial to that theory since I can't imagine fast-food restaurants
using an expensive ingredient like bourbon.

At any rate, after much experimentation, I've come up with a recipe that pleases my bourbon-
chicken loving son. You can easily multiply the recipe

to

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serve a crowd.

Recipe follows, below.

* * * * *

Bourbon Chicken

4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, or 8 skinless, boneless

chicken

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thighs (1 to 1 ¼ pounds total)
1/3 cup soy sauce ½ medium onion, chopped very fine ½ cup packed brown sugar ¼ cup bourbon or to
taste 1 clove garlic, minced fine 1 teaspoon ground ginger

Dice chicken into bite-size pieces and place in a single layer in a glass baking dish. In a small
bowl, combine the soy sauce, onion, brown sugar, bourbon, garlic and ginger. Pour over chicken.
Cover and refrigerate at least 6 hours and preferably overnight, turning chicken several times.

Heat oven to 325 degrees. Uncover pan and bake chicken, basting with pan juices several times, for
1 hour, until meat is cooked through and nicely browned. Serve with rice. Makes 4 servings.

Per serving: 291 calories (5 percent from fat), 1.5 g fat (0.4 g

saturated,

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.4 g monounsaturated), 68.4 mg cholesterol, 29.7 g protein, 30.3 g carbohydrates, 0.5 g fiber,
1,276 mg sodium.

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

You might want to try a standard recipe and then, if you think it needs goosing up, experiment
with adding brown sugar

or

Quoted message said:

even

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

that bottled jack daniels barbecue sauce. Naomi D.

Have you ever really tasted that bottled JD sauce? Yuck.

I too would like a GOOD and TRIED by a human being with a sense of taste Bourbon Chicken recipe.
Maybe a knock off of Golden Coral?

Laura B.

Paul O'Neill said:

Let me add this to my own posting:

Whenever I have seen this popular dish prepared in shopping mall food courts, I noticed that the
cook takes out a pre-packaged portion of marinated chicken bits, marinade, etc., in a single zip-
lock type baggie. She or he then empty the serving into a very hot wok or griddle and proceeds to
stir-fry the living Christ out of it, browning it and allowing it just enough time to sizzle the
juices down to a thick glop and cooking the chicken bits completely through (I hope!) So, I'd say
dice the chicken into bits that are small enough to cook thoroughly in a few minutes in a stir-
fry environment.

The recipe I found and posted calls for the mixture to be baked, but I'd be more inclined to use
it as a jumping-off spot and chuck it into a hot wok.

Hey, it's a start!

Paul (still frozen) in Massachusetts

Glad you added that... seems more reasonable than baking an hour.

The ingredients are similar to what I use as a marinade - except I add hoi sin to it also.

Practice safe eating - always use condiments

Jack Schidt® said:

"cc" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Why is it that every time someone asks for a recipe on a cooking group, someone sends them to
Google?? Has it ever occured to anyone that what requesters want is a TRIED recipe? Something
that someone has used and knows tastes good?

Quoted message said:

It's in the wording of the question. If someone asks simply 'got a recipe for [your dish here]?,
they're more likely to get the surly google eye from most here. The same question, better phrased
as 'there are hundreds of recipes for [your dish here]; what have you tried and what do you like
about it?' would fetch better response. Or something like that. Just asking the first example
doesn't imply any 'homework' done on the part of the questioning poster.

Precisely. I characterize this, not unfairly, as the "gimme chiken recepes" post. By no means "all"
nor even 'most' queries are referred to Google. Someone asking for "recipes" or "chicken recipes" or
"cake recipes" is usually a troll. There are a million online. What does the (genuine) poster
actually want? How to roast a chicken? What to make with chicken thighs? How to make chicken pot
pie, chicken soup, chicken salad? Is the poster an experienced cook looking for new ideas (hah!) or
someone who wants to replicate KFC in their dorm room?

In fact, if the poster doesn't know it, Googling for a recipe is usually quite productive. One gets
a feel for what the generic process is, as well as possible variations. As for "tried" recipes,
tastes differ. Just because one person's favorite cake involves a can of fruit cocktail doesn't mean
it'll appeal to everyone -- only that it probably won't explode in the oven. Probably. :-)