Miso Honey Chicken

It's not hard to make a great marinade with just a few ingredients, as long as one of those ingredients is the magical miso. This super savory paste, made from fermented rice, barley, and soybeans, isn't that hard to find. While the marinade is simple, the flavors are anything but in this miso chicken.

• Preparation Time: 10 mins
• Cooking Time: 45 mins
• Total Time: 55 mins
• Calories: 255 Calories

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1 pinch cayenne pepper
• ¼ cup rice vinegar
• kosher salt to taste
• 1 tablespoon kosher salt
• 2 teaspoons hot sauce
• 3 tablespoons white miso
• 1 whole chicken, halved, wing tips separated
• ½ lemon, cut into wedges, or to taste

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Flip chicken over in the bowl. Sprinkle more kosher salt on top.

Step 2

Combine miso and honey in a bowl. Pour in rice vinegar, followed by hot sauce and 1 tablespoon salt. Whisk well until mostly smooth.

Step 3

Cut 3 to 4 slashes into legs and thighs of chicken halves. Toss chicken in the marinade until well coated. Refrigerate for 2 to 12 hours.

Step 4

Preheat a grill to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) over indirect heat.

Step 5

Place chicken on the grill and cover. Grill for 20 minutes and flip chicken over. Cover and grill for another 20 minutes.

Step 6

Brush the excess marinade on top of chicken. Cover again and continue cooking until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the center of each thigh reads 165 degrees F (74 degrees C), 5 to 10 minutes more.

Step 7

Plate chicken alongside lemon wedges sprinkled with cayenne pepper. Squeeze some spicy lemon over chicken as you cut it up.