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Secret Chicken Sauce
Dinner

Secret Chicken Sauce

1.5 hrs Serves 4

A recipe from Estelle Human. This is the tray of chicken that quietly steals the show — the sauce caramelises into something sticky and golden, and there's never any left.

Ingredients

  • 8 chicken thighs
  • 1 cup mayonnaise
  • 1 cup chutney
  • 1 cup hot water
  • 1 pack onion soup
  • 2 tbsp apricot jam
  • 3 tsp salt and pepper

Method

  1. 1

    Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C).

  2. 2

    Mix the mayonnaise, chutney, hot water, onion soup, apricot jam, and salt and pepper into a sauce.

  3. 3

    Cover the chicken with the sauce, separating the thighs to make sure the sauce gets through and around each piece.

  4. 4

    Cover with foil, shiny side facing towards the chicken.

  5. 5

    Bake for 30 minutes, then remove the foil and bake for a further hour, until sticky and golden.

Notes

Serve with rice or mashed potato to soak up all that sauce. It only gets better as leftovers the next day.