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Easy and Delicious Korean Baked Chicken

Jul 11, 2020Last Modified: June 25, 2022

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This page may contain affiliate links. So I receive a small commission at no cost to you when you make a purchase using my link. This post is about the flavor bomb food called Korean Baked Chicken!

Korean Baked chicken with green onions and sesame seeds on a white plate.
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  • Ingredients
  • How To Get Crispy Chicken When Baking
  • Instructions
  • Time To Get Your Hands Messy!!
  • How To Serve Korean Baked Chicken
  • Some Other Recipes You May Enjoy!
  • Korean Baked Chicken

If you are like me, then you like FLAVOR PACKED FOODS. No bland food please! LOL

Korean Baked Chicken checks those boxes! This Korean style, spicy baked chicken recipe also couldn't be simpler to make. Bake some crispy chicken, and then baste with a yummy spicy gochujang based sauce and you're in for a delicious treat!

Ingredients

My easy recipe for baked Korean chicken uses chicken drumsticks. I just love getting my hands messy with these, and you will too!

Gochujang, rice vinegar, honey, sliced green onions in a glass bowl, sesame seeds, soy sauce, and 2 cloves of garlic.

You will need the following ingredients for this Korean baked chicken recipe:

  • Chicken drumsticks (can sub other chicken pieces such as chicken wings)
  • Aluminum free baking powder (I used Rumford)
  • Salt
  • Gochujang (Korean red pepper paste)
  • Rice wine vinegar
  • Garlic
  • Honey
  • Soy sauce (I used Kikkoman)
  • Roasted sesame seeds for garnish
  • Green onions (sliced) for garnish
  • Olive oil (for oiling the wire rack so the chicken doesn't stick)

Major grocers should carry most of these ingredients. If you can't find gochujang there, check your local Asian market. I have also linked to Amazon for some of these items for convenience sake.

How To Get Crispy Chicken When Baking

I have read that the secret to crispy baked chicken skin is...guess what? Baking powder! I won't go into the science here, but basically the baking powder helps to dry out the skin which results in a crispy skin.

Please note I used Rumford Baking Powder. This baking powder is aluminum free. I recommend using an aluminum free baking powder because I have read that you may experience a funny taste if using a baking powder which contains aluminum.

Baking Powder

Instructions

To make this chicken recipe, begin by patting the chicken dry with a paper towel to remove as much moisture as you can. Then toss the chicken drumsticks in a mixture of baking powder and salt in a sealable plastic bag. Try to ensure evening coating as much as possible.

Chicken drumsticks covered with baking powder in a plastic zip bag.

Then put the chicken pieces on a wire rack and and for best results, oil the rack a bit with some olive oil so that the chicken doesn't stick. Place the wire rack over a roasting tin or large baking dish lined with aluminum foil to catch any drips.

Now bake the drumsticks in a 425F oven for around an hour or so. The time to cook your chicken may be a little more or less than one hour depending on the size of your drumsticks. You can use a meat thermometer, such as Meater, to ensure that your meat is cooked safely to an internal temperature of 165F.

The chicken skin turned out pretty crispy don't you think? 😃

Chicken drumsticks on a wire rack that have been cooked with crispy skin one drumstick being held by tongs closeup.

The last step and the finishing touch is the gochujang based sauce. It's super easy to make and once you try this you'll want to put it on EVERYTHING!

Gochujang Based Sauce

This hot sauce is a combination of gochujang, rice vinegar, garlic, honey, and soy sauce. No bland here!

Once your chicken is baked, you simply baste this spicy sauce over your crispy chicken or toss the sauce and chicken together in a large bowl (tossing by hand is easier). The sauce should coat all of the chicken so that it is completely covered with the sauce.

Baked chicken drumsticks in a blue bowl with gochujang based sauce being poured over them.

Ta da! Your Korean oven baked chicken is now ready to enjoy!

Time To Get Your Hands Messy!!

Now you will have a true challenge...to try to keep from eating the entire batch of baked chicken! Honestly, I ate a few drumsticks at dinner, and then snuck back to the chicken (I mean kitchen!) to have just one more. Three more consumed and there wasn't much left of the 5 lbs of drumsticks that I had cooked! A little embarrassing, but I want to be honest here to give you a head's up. 😃

Korean Baked chicken with green onions and sesame seeds on a white plate with green onions in the background.

How To Serve Korean Baked Chicken

I recommend that you serve delicious Korean Baked Chicken garnished with green onions and sesame seeds. You can enjoy with some white rice, and how about some pickled daikon radish and cold beer, just as the Koreans do?

A great side dish to accompany would be some quick and easy cucumber kimchi!

Korean Baked chicken with green onions and sesame seeds on a white plate.

I hope you will enjoy some Korean Baked Chicken soon! Feel free to use the sauce on chicken wings instead of drumsticks if you like. And oh yeah...you'll be licking your fingers with these I promise!!  😃 

Some Other Recipes You May Enjoy!

Korean Fried Chicken - similar to this but FRIED!

Korean Fried Chicken
#16 Korean Fried Chicken - Yangnyeom Dak

Quick and Easy Cucumber Kimchi

Cucumber kimchi with cut up cucumbers, onions, and green onions in a bowl with chopsticks laying on the bowl.

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Grace

Korean Baked chicken with green onions and sesame seeds on a white plate.

Korean Baked Chicken

Grace
Korean Baked Chicken is a FLAVOR BOMB! No bland here! Crispy baked chicken basted with a spicy gochujang sauce...win win win!!!
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Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 1 hr
Total Time 1 hr 10 mins
Course Main Course
Cuisine Asian, Korean
Servings 4 people
Calories 676 kcal

Equipment

  • Wire rack to place chicken on

Ingredients
  

  • 5 lb Chicken drumsticks with skin on can sub chicken wings
  • 4 tablespoon baking powder I used Rumford baking powder (split)
  • 2 ts salt split
  • olive oil use a little for oiling the wire rack so the chicken doesn't stick

Sauce Ingredients

  • 6 tablespoon gochujang
  • 2 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
  • 6 cloves garlic minced
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce I used Kikkoman

Garnishes

  • 1 tablespoon roasted sesame seeds for garnish
  • 2 green onions sliced, for garnish

Instructions
 

  • Preheat your oven to 425F. While preheating remove the chicken to rest at room temp around 30 minutes. Pat dry the chicken drumsticks with paper towels. Try to remove as much moisture as you can.
    Chicken drumsticks on a white plate with a hand using a brown paper towel to pat dry the chicken.
  • REPEAT THIS STEP TWICE, USING HALF OF THE DRUMSTICKS, BAKING POWDER, AND SALT EACH TIME. Mix 2 tablespoon baking powder and 1 ts salt in a large ziplock bag. Coat the drumsticks with this mixture. Try to ensure even coating as much as possible. Shake off excess baking powder and salt.
    Chicken drumsticks covered with baking powder in a plastic zip bag.
  • Place the chicken on a wire rack. I placed my wire rack on top of a roasting tin that was lined with aluminum foil. You can also place it over a large baking dish to catch the drips.
    chicken drumsticks on a wire rack
  • Roast the chicken for approximately 1 hr in your 425F oven. I recommend turning the chicken every 20 minutes or so. Check a few times to ensure no burning, etc.
    fried chicken on a rack
  • Meanwhile, create your sauce! Mix the sauce ingredients: gochujang, rice wine vinegar, garlic, honey, and sauce sauce in a small bowl. Leave aside until the chicken has finished baking.
    Gochujang Based Sauce
  • Once the chicken is finished baking SMOTHER it with the sauce! You can either baste the chicken with a baster, or toss everything together in a large bowl until the chicken is well coated. Tossing by hand is the easiest and best way! Best to wear some food gloves if you have them!
    Korean Baked chicken with green onions and sesame seeds on a white plate.

Notes

The time to cook your chicken may be a little more or less than one hour depending on the size of your drumsticks. You can use a meat thermometer, such as Meater, to ensure that your meat is cooked safely to an internal temperature of 165F.
Enjoy this delicious Korean Baked Chicken with rice, kimchi, and some cold Korean beer!  Garnish with sesame seeds and green onion.  Be warned...it's hard to stop eating these!  Enjoy 🙂

Nutrition

Calories: 676kcalCarbohydrates: 18gProtein: 69gFat: 36gSaturated Fat: 9gPolyunsaturated Fat: 8gMonounsaturated Fat: 15gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 349mgSodium: 3088mgPotassium: 995mgFiber: 1gSugar: 7gVitamin A: 283IUVitamin C: 6mgCalcium: 782mgIron: 5mg
Keyword Fried Chicken, korean food
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