Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, chicken char siu. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chicken Char Siu is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Chicken Char Siu is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Warning: This Char Siu Chicken is highly addictive! You'll wonder how you ever grilled chicken thighs without this mix of honey, hoisin, garlic, soy sauce, and Chinese five-spice powder. Char siu chicken, made with with brown sugar, sriracha, and Chinese five-spice, makes this dish a surefire crowd-pleaser.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. 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:
- Take 1 kg Chicken thigh fillet / breast
- Get Marinade
- Make ready 3-4 tbsp maltose/honey
- Prepare 3 cubes red fermented tofu
- Take 3 tbsp the red fermented tofu liquid
- Take 3 tbsp housin sauce
- Make ready 3 cloves garlic (roughly chopped)
- Prepare 3 tbsp roughly chopped ginger
- Prepare 3 tbsp chinese rice cooking wine
- Get 3 tsp chinese five spices
- Take 1 tsp salt (or to taste)
- Make ready Red food colouring (optional)
- Make ready Glaze
- Take 3 tbsp honey
- Get Left over marinade
It's juicy, delicious, and actually very easy to make. Transfer your char siu grilled chicken to a serving platter, brush with the reserved sauce, and serve. This Chinese Chicken is made with the same Char Siu marinade as the wildly popular Chinese Barbecue Pork. Char siu is a popular way to flavor and prepare barbecued pork in Cantonese cuisine.
Instructions 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.
It is classified as a type of siu mei (燒味), Cantonese roasted meat. Char Siu is also known as Barbequed pork in China. I had a few requests in the Chinese Buffet at Home article for the red chicken skewers from the Chinese buffet. Luckily someone pointed me in the. Who says that char siu is limited to pork?
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