Sriracha Chicken and Kimchi Fried Rice

My favorite thing about this meal is that it looks super impressive but in actuality, its pretty simple. On top of the easy, yet fancy nature of this dish, my son said its the best chicken he's ever had; and he's had a lot of chicken....soooooo. Its a little spicy but nothing you cant handle. 

Chicken Ingredients:

6 bone-in, skin on chicken thighs

oil (I used olive oil)

1/3 cup sriracha

1 cup brown sugar

1 1/2 Tbs honey

2 Tbs soy sauce

2 Tbs tomato paste

Directions:

preheat oven to 375. 

1) in a small bowl mix sriracha, brown sugar, honey, soy sauce and tomato paste.

2) heat a large skillet to a medium high heat. Coat generously with oil.

3) Salt and pepper chicken thighs and sear the chicken in the hot oil; about 5 min on both side. Until the skin is nice and crispy. You may need to cook the Thighs in a couple batches.

4) transfer browned chicken to a foil lined baking sheet. Cover the chicken in the sriracha BBQ sauce. Place chicken in the oven and bake for 20 min or until thighs are fully cooked. 

While the chicken is baking you can make the rice.

Ingredients for Kimchi Rice:

3 Tbs butter

1/2 onion, diced

2 cups kimchi, roughly chopped

2 cups COOKED rice (preferably cooled... great idea for leftover rice)

2 Tbs kimchi juice

1 tsp sesame oil

3 tsp low sodium soy sauce

2 tsp vegetable oil

2 eggs lightly whisked 

Sesame seeds for garnish 

Rice Directions:

1) Melt butter in a nonstick Sauté pan or a cast- iron skillet, melt butter over medium heat, and add onions. Cook, stirring until the onions start to sizzle and become tender. Add kimchi, cook until hot, about 2 min.  

2) Add rice to the kimchi and onions, breaking up the rice if necessary with a spatula, stir to combine. When the rice starts to warm add the kimchi juice, soy sauce and sesame oil. 

3) Move rice to the side of the pan making a little room to scramble your eggs. Add the vegetable oil to the cleared area...pour the eggs onto the hot oil and scramble. When cooked, stir eggs into the rice mixture. Taste and season with salt and pepper or soy sauce if needed. 

To finish, fry up some eggs if desired....or just serve up the rice and top with cooked chicken and sprinkle with sesame seeds. YUM!