BAKED HONEY CHICKEN

Ingredients:
Large chicken fillets - 4
Light soy sauce - 1/2 cup
Sake - 1/2 cup
Fresh ginger root - 5 cm
Garlic clove - 1 crushed
Clear honey - 2 tbsp
Salt and pepper
Celery sticks - 2
Shallots - 8

Method:

• Mix the soy sauce, sake, peeled and grated ginger, crushed garlic and salt and pepper to taste.
• Soften the honey in a saucepan.
• Coat the chicken with the honey making sure that all the meat is coated.
• Place in a shallow flameproof dish. Pour the marinade over the chicken.
• Cover and marinade for 2-3 hours.
• Preheat a moderate oven. Place the dish of chicken and marinade in the oven and cook for 30 minutes or until cooked and tender, basting with the sauce occasionally.
• Lift the chicken from the dish and place in a warmed serving dish.
• Pour the sauce into a separate warm, dipping bowl.
• Serve the chicken immediately garnished with slivers of celerry and whole trimmed shallots.