Orange-Honey Glazed Chicken Thighs

Name: Orange-Honey Glazed Chicken Thighs
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups, orange juice plus an additional 2 tablespoons; 1/3 cup, light corn syrup; 3 tablespoons, honey; 1 tablespoon, Dijon mustard; 1 tablespoon, distilled white vinegar; 1/8 teaspoon, red pepper flakes; 1/2 cup, all-purpose flour; 8 , bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs (about 6 ounces each), trimmed of excess fat, with three diagonal slahses on the skin (see Step by Step); 2 teaspoons, vegetable oil; 1 , medium shallot, minced (about 3 tablespoons)

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2008

Main Courses

Chicken

SERVES4

TIME1½ hours

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a chicken recipe with perfectly rendered skin, moist meat, and a glaze with complex flavor, we browned the skin to combat flabbiness and gave it a light coating of flour, which provided a good grip for the glaze. Corn syrup, which is ha...

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