Molasses Mustard Chicken Food

MOLASSES BAKED CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly grease a large baking dish.
• Season the chicken with salt, pepper, and cinnamon. Arrange in the prepared baking dish.
• In a bowl, mix the molasses, vinegar, and mustard.
• Bake chicken 20 minutes in the preheated oven. Coat chicken with the molasses mixture. Continue baking 20 minutes, or until chicken juices run clear.

GRILLED HONEY MUSTARD CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat a grill to medium high. Whisk the honey mustard, molasses, vinegar, melted butter and hot sauce in a bowl until smooth; season with salt and pepper. Remove 1/4 cup to a small bowl for basting the chicken; set aside the rest for serving.
• Toss the okra and bell peppers with the vegetable oil in a bowl; season with salt and pepper. Tear off a 16-inch piece of foil. Spread the vegetables on the left side of the foil. Fold the right side of the foil over and seal the edges to form a packet.
• Brush the grill grates with vegetable oil. Season the chicken with salt and pepper and grill until marked, about 2 minutes per side. Brush with the honey mustard basting sauce; cover and cook until almost cooked through, 5 to 8 minutes. Uncover and cook, flipping and brushing with the remaining basting sauce, until cooked through, about 5 more minutes. Remove to a cutting board and let rest before slicing.
• Meanwhile, grill the foil packet, flipping halfway through, until the vegetables are tender and charred, 12 to 15 minutes. Top the chicken with chives; serve with the grilled vegetables, cornbread and the reserved honey mustard sauce.

MISS LILY'S JERK CHICKEN

Steps:

• Place the chicken in a large bowl or baking dish and pour the brine over it, making sure the chicken is fully submerged. Cover and refrigerate for 24 hours.
• Rinse the chicken well. Wearing latex or vinyl gloves (Scotch bonnet chiles can remain on the skin for 24 hours!) rub the Jerk Marinade all over the chicken. Place in a resealable plastic bag and refrigerate for 24 hours.
• Preheat a grill for cooking over indirect medium heat. Lightly oil the grill grates, then place the chicken skin-side down over indirect heat. Grill, uncovered, turning the chicken every 5 to 6 minutes, until the juices run clear when the thighs are pricked with a fork, 40 to 50 minutes.
• Remove from the grill and let rest for 5 minutes to allow the juices to distribute equally.
• Cut the chicken into quarters, separating the leg portions from the breast portions, and serve with Jerk BBQ Sauce.
• Stir the salt and light brown sugar into 8 cups water in a pot and bring to a simmer, stirring to ensure that the salt and sugar completely dissolve. Let cool to 38 degrees F before using.
• Put the soy sauce, oil, salt, allspice, thyme, green onions, garlic, chiles, ginger and onion in a food processor and puree until a smooth paste is formed, adding more oil if necessary. Set aside.
• In a nonreactive heavy-bottomed saucepan, stir together the tomato paste and 2 cups water and heat slowly, stirring, until well incorporated. Add in the Jerk Marinade, molasses, vinegar, brown sugar, mustard powder, tamarind, celery salt, cumin, pepper, liquid smoke, thyme and lime juice. Bring to a boil, then turn down the heat and simmer until the sauce has thickened and reached the desired consistency. Remove from the heat and let cool.

MOLASSES-MUSTARD BARBECUED CHICKEN

Steps:

• 1. Place chicken breasts between 2 sheets of plastic wrap; with flat side of meat mallet, pound to flatten chicken to 1/2 inch. In shallow glass or ceramic baking dish or resealable plastic bag, stir together molasses, mustard, honey, thyme, vinegar, oil, salt and crushed red pepper. Add chicken, turning to coat both sides. Refrigerate 2 to 4 hours.
• 2. Heat grill. Remove chicken from barbecue sauce; reserve sauce. Oil grill grates. Place chicken on gas grill over medium-high heat or on charcoal grill 4 to 6 inches from medium-high coals; cover grill. Grill 8 to 10 minutes or until no longer pink in center, turning once and brushing with sauce halfway through. Discard remaining sauce.

BRAISED CHICKEN WITH POMEGRANATE MOLASSES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Coat a large saute pan with olive oil. Toss in 2 of the garlic cloves and a pinch of crushed red pepper. Bring the pan to medium-high heat. When the garlic is golden and very aromatic, remove it and discard--it has fulfilled its garlic destiny.
• Season the chicken thighs with salt and place them skin side down in the pan. Don't crowd the pan or the thighs will steam instead of brown--you may have to work in batches here, no worries. Brown the chicken thighs really well on both sides, 10 to 12 minutes total.
• Transfer the chicken to a rimmed baking sheet and roast for 10 to 12 minutes or until cooked through.
• Ditch the oil from the pan and add 2 garlic cloves, 1/2 cup of the pomegranate molasses along with 1/2 cup of the chicken stock, scraping the mixture from the bottom of the pan. Add the thyme. Bring the mixture to a boil and let it evaporate by half--it should be slightly thick and syrupy. Season with salt.
• Return the chicken to the pan, along with the juices from the sheet pan, scraping up any bits. Reduce the heat to medium, and cook in the sauce for 3 to 5 minutes on each side, or until the sauce thickens and it clings to the chicken in a yummy embrace.
• While the chicken roasts, add the remaining molasses, stock, and garlic to the pan along with the thyme bundle and a pinch of crushed red pepper. Taste and season with salt if needed. Bring to a boil and reduce to a simmer (BTB, RTS). Cook until the liquid is thick and syrupy. Discard the garlic cloves and thyme bundle.
• Remove the chicken from the oven, transfer to a serving dish, drizzle with the sauce, and sprinkle with the pomegranate seeds and chives before serving.

MUSTARD- MOLASSES GLAZED CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Whisk together in a small bowl the molasses, mustard, vinegar, and hot sauce.
• Completely cover the chicken in mustard glaze mix.
• Place the chicken skin side down in a 10x15 inch baking pan.
• Pour remaining glaze over chicken.
• Sprinkle with the salt and pepper.
• Roast chicken on top rack in oven for about 40 minute.
• Or until the juices run barely clear when you prick the chicken.
• Remove the pan from the oven.
• And turn the broiler on high turn the chicken pieces over and baste the chicken with pan drippings.
• If there is a lot of pan drippings or fat that has been rendered out, spoon out some before broiling.
• To prevent flare ups.
• Broil, basting the chicken and rotating the pan for even browning.
• Until fully browned, and has a nice glossy look, about 8 minute.
• Drizzle any pan drippings left over the chicken before serving.

MOLASSES CHICKEN BREASTS

Steps:

• Brush one side of each chicken breast with a light coat of molasses.
• Sprinkle both sides of breast with lemon pepper and seasoned salt.
• Grill, molasses side up, on medium temperature for 4-5 minutes.
• Turn (do not pierce breast) gently and continue to grill to desired doneness.
• I prefer to remove the breasts when they are still soft to touch at the thickest part.

PEACH AND MOLASSES CHICKEN

Steps:

• Make the sauce: In a small saucepan, combine the peach jam, molasses, vinegar and 1/2 cup water and bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally to combine. Once boiling, reduce the heat to maintain a vigorous simmer and whisk in the tomato paste, soy sauce, coriander, ground mustard and salt. Simmer for 6 to 8 minutes, stirring occasionally, until thickened; the sauce should be reduced to about 1 cup. The sauce can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 3 to 4 days. (Before using, bring to room temperature and thin with a few teaspoons of hot water if the sauce has become too thick to brush.)
• Prepare the chicken: Leaving one section free of coals on a charcoal grill or leaving one burner off on a gas grill, heat a grill to medium (350 degrees). Pat the chicken thighs very dry with paper towels. Season both sides with the salt and pepper. Coat with the peanut oil.
• Place the chicken thighs on the hot grill, skin-side down, close the grill lid and cook, moving the chicken away from any flare-ups, for 5 to 8 minutes, or until the skin lifts easily from the grill grates. Transfer a few tablespoons of the sauce to a small bowl and set aside. Flip the chicken thighs and use a heat-resistant brush to coat with some of the remaining sauce. Cover the grill again and cook for another 5 to 8 minutes, then flip and baste with the sauce again. Grill with the lid open for another 10 minutes, or until the thighs reach an internal temperature of 165 degrees on an instant-read thermometer. (If the skin starts to burn, flip the chicken and move to the cool part of the grill.) Flip the chicken skin-side up one last time and rest on an upper rack or the cool side of the grill for 10 minutes, using a clean brush and the reserved sauce to baste once more.
• Transfer the chicken to a platter and sprinkle the tops with the crushed coriander, then serve.

CARIBBEAN CANADIAN GLAZED CHICKEN

Steps:

• To Make Glaze: In a medium bowl combine the ketchup, pineapple juice, molasses, rum, mustard and garlic. Season with salt and pepper to taste and mix well.
• Place chicken pieces in a lightly oiled 9x13 inch baking dish; brush both sides with prepared glaze, using about 1/2 of the glaze. Cover dish and refrigerate to marinate for at least 2 hours or overnight. Also, refrigerate remaining glaze.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Lightly brush chicken pieces on one side with some of the reserved glaze and bake uncovered in preheated oven for about 25 minutes. Turn pieces, brush with remaining glaze and bake for another 25 minutes or until chicken is tender.
• Preheat oven to broil.
• Put chicken under broiler and lightly brown on both sides, about 2 to 3 minutes each side. (Note: Watch chicken carefully, as this 'sugary' glaze burns easily!)

MOLASSES-MUSTARD GLAZE

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients in saucepan; bring to boil on medium-high heat, stirring frequently.
• Reduce heat to low; simmer 3 min., stirring occasionally.
• Use to brush onto chicken and ribs for the last few min. of the cooking time.

MOLASSES MUSTARD

Steps:

• Mix the mustard seeds and spices in a bowl, pour the vinegar on top and leave to soak overnight.
• Place the mixture in a mortar and pound to a paste.
• Gradually work in the molasses.
• The finished mustard should resemble a stiff paste, so add extra vinegar if necessary.
• Store the mustard in sterilized jars in the fridge.
• Use within 4 weeks.