Pinterest Challenge: Hawaiian Grilled Chicken

For my first Pinterest Challenge post I decided to go easy...no drastic living room change or crazy DIY craft...just good old food. I tried the Hawaiian Grilled Chicken recipe from The Girl Who Ate Everything blog. (It's her picture too.)

This recipe was love at first bite and I'd for sure do it again. The coconut rice was especially amazing. Scroll for the recipe, my changes, and a review from the hubs.

(The following is quoted directly from The Girl Who Ate Everything blog. As is the above picture.)

"Hawaiian Grilled Chicken

Source: Jeff Tibbitts

 

3 pounds of boneless skinless chicken thighs

2 cups soy sauce (the soy sauce and water just needs to be a 1:1 ratio)

2 cups water

1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1 bunch of green onions, chopped (reserve some for garnish)
1/4 cup of a white onion, chopped
1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
1 teaspoon of sesame oil
1 (13.5 ounce) can of coconut milk

Note: Jeff says the real key is the soy sauce. Kikomen's is way too salty. He prefers the Aloha Shoyu soy sauce. If you can only find Kikomen at least get the low sodium kind.
Trim chicken thighs of any visible fat. Mix soy sauce, water, brown sugar, onions, garlic, sesame oil, and coconut milk in a large bowl. Marinade chicken for at least 4 hours or overnight to make sure the flavor gets infused.
Grill chicken at a low heat so that the marinade does not burn for 5-7 minutes per side or until done. If you do not have a grill you can use a indoor grill pan.
Serve over a platter of coconut rice and garnish with green onions and a some additional soy sauce.
*Coconut rice can be made by just replacing half of the water in your rice recipe with coconut milk. A trick my SIL told me!"

Okay, it's me again!
My changes:
1. I used chicken breasts. I'm no thigh hater, it's just that the brand I buy didn't have thighs in stock at the time.
2. I further reduced her recipe. I used 1 pound of meat and halved the rest of the ingredients.

The Hubby's review:
Stars: 4.5 of 5
Why not 5 stars: Could have used more onions on top when it was plated. Also, the chicken would have been great kabobed and then mixed in with the rice and garnish onions.

The Pinterest Challenge

It's 6:30am. I've been awake since maybe 5. Pressure in my ears is making it hard to sleep...fluid or maybe middle ear infection? Who knows. As I'm waiting for my doctor's office phone line to open I am browsing Pinterest...which I posted about here. As of this moment I have 282 pins. That's a lot of pins.

So here's the part where I declare another crazy blogging challege that will probably come to a quiet end in a month or two. You'd think I would have learned by now to stop coming up with these things...I'm blaming it on my current state of sleeplessness.

Inspired by Young House Love's Pinterest challenge I am going to attempt to carry out a pin every one or two weeks. Seriously, 282 pins and I have yet to try any of them. Let me quote Sherry at YHL by saying "stop pinning and start doing".

Okay, so it's 7 now. Baby's stirring and the hubby's alarm just went off. (And I know what you're thinking...it took her 30 minutes to write 13 sentences? Yaaa...I'm a little OCD when it comes to writing.) I will leave you with two quotes I found on...you guessed it...Pinterest. (I'm blaming the espresso references on...again...sleeplessness.)