Ingredients: chicken thighs, salt, chili, 5 spice powder, minced garlic

Prep time: 5 minutes Cook time: 1.5 hours

材料： 雞前腿肉、鹽、辣椒粉、五香粉、蒜末

準備時間： 5 分鐘 煮食時間： 1.5 小時

作法：

• Preheat oven to 195 degrees F
• Chicken thighs washed and dried with paper towels
• Evenly spread 1/4 teaspoon of salt, 1/2 teaspoon of 5 spice powder, and 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of chili powder on top of the chicken. Add 1 teaspoon of minced garlic on the chicken. Use your hands to rub all the seasoning evenly on the surfaces of chicken.
• Arrange chicken thighs with meat side down on a baking pan. Bake at 195 degree F for 1 hour
• Increase oven temperature to 350 degrees F. Take out the baking pan and turn the chicken over, skin side down. Place the pan back to oven. Bake for 15 minutes.
• Take out the chicken from oven. Don’t worry about the juices in the pan as shown in the picture below. Turn the chicken thighs over again, the skin side up. Place the pan in oven and bake for another 15 minutes.

作法：

• 烤箱預熱到華氏195 度
• 雞前腿肉洗淨用紙巾擦乾
• 把1/4 茶匙鹽、1/2 茶匙五香粉、1/2 到1茶匙辣椒粉均勻地灑在雞肉表面。加1 茶匙蒜末在雞肉上。用手把所有調味料均勻的按摩在雞肉表面上
• 把雞前腿排列在烤盤上，帶皮的部分朝上，烤1個小時
• 把烤箱溫度調高到華氏350度，把烤盤取出，雞肉翻面，再放回烤箱中，再烤15分鐘。
• 從烤箱把雞肉取出，此時烤盤中有許多雞肉烤出來的汁，不用管它。把雞肉翻面，帶皮的那一面朝上，再烤15分鐘即可。

Note: The important step for this dish is to evenly season the meat, particularly the salt. You can mix all dry seasoning well in a salt shaker to do the job. You can use your favorite dry rub recipes too. When the chicken thighs are cooked in low temperature, 195 degrees F, the surfaces of chicken thighs are cooked but all the moisture is trapped inside. When the chicken is cooked in high temperature to gain its golden BBQ color and dense surface texture, some juices come out from the chicken but the meat remains juicy. The meat is very tender too. My family enjoys this BBQ chicken . Hope you love it too.

這道烤雞腿很重要的一步是調味均勻，尢其是鹽，否則就會有的地方太鹹有的地方不鹹。你可以考慮把所有乾的調味料放在一個有細孔的調味罐中，就像放在桌子的鹽罐，這樣灑調味料時，容易均勻。你若有自己喜歡的調味方式，也可以自由選擇。烤雞腿時，在低溫的情況下，雞肉表面熟了，但所有的水分會留在其中。把温度調高來使雞肉表面緊實上色時，因為烤的時間不長，部分水分會蒸發出來，裡面雞肉仍維持軟嫩多汁。我們全家都喜歡這道烤雞腿，希望你也喜歡。