Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, chicken char siu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Classic char siu is made with fatty pork shoulder, which requires an overnight marinade for good flavor. My healthy weeknight alternative is to use chicken thighs. To cook the chicken, you can use a stove-top grill pan as suggested in the recipe.
Chicken Char Siu is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Chicken Char Siu is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken char siu using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Char Siu:
- Make ready 1 kg Chicken thigh fillet / breast
- Make ready Marinade
- Prepare 3-4 tbsp maltose/honey
- Take 3 cubes red fermented tofu
- Take 3 tbsp the red fermented tofu liquid
- Prepare 3 tbsp housin sauce
- Get 3 cloves garlic (roughly chopped)
- Get 3 tbsp roughly chopped ginger
- Get 3 tbsp chinese rice cooking wine
- Prepare 3 tsp chinese five spices
- Prepare 1 tsp salt (or to taste)
- Take Red food colouring (optional)
- Make ready Glaze
- Prepare 3 tbsp honey
- Get Left over marinade
If you love Chinese or Cantonese food, I am sure you love Char Siu, or barbeque pork belly with a savory, sweet and sticky marinade. Char Siu is a Chinatown staple and it's. Brought by Chinese immigrants to Hawaii, this dish is typically made with baby back ribs. This easy char siu chicken recipe comes from one of my favorite cookbooks of the year, Vietnamese Food Any Day: Simple Recipes for True, Fresh Flavors by Andrea Nguyen.
Steps to make Chicken Char Siu:
- Marination - Clean chicken. Combine ingredients for marination in a big bowl. Stir to mix. Use this to Marinate chicken fillets for 24hours. Refrigerate.
- For the glaze - Remove chicken from the marinate & let sit for an hour in room temperature. Add the marinate to a small pot & remove the garlic & ginger. Add honey & mix well. Cook on low heat for 5mins or until the sauce start to boil. Set aside for glazing.
- Set up chicken on the tray that comes with a roasting rack. Preheat oven to 400 F /200 C.
- Bake chicken for 20mins. Flip. Bake for another 20mins. For the next 20mins, flip & glaze chicken every 3-5mins until all the glaze is brushed on. Char siu gets charred lightly.
- Once done, let it rest for 10-15mins. Slice & serve or Refrigerate for other uses like bao / buns filling, siu pau etc.
Nguyen writes, "Savory-sweet and garlicky Chinese barbecued pork, called char siu in Cantonese and xá xíu in Vietnamese, is hard to resist. A few hours later, I was tweaking my dad's char siu sauce recipe and using it to baste the chicken on the grill, and voila! Char Siu Grilled Chicken entered the world. It's juicy, delicious, and actually very easy to make. The sauce doesn't need to be cooked or anything beforehand.
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