Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going 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 will be really delicious.
Chicken Char Siu is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Chicken Char Siu is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
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.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook chicken char siu using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Char Siu:
- Make ready 1 kg Chicken thigh fillet / breast
- Get Marinade
- Make ready 3-4 tbsp maltose/honey
- Take 3 cubes red fermented tofu
- Get 3 tbsp the red fermented tofu liquid
- Make ready 3 tbsp housin sauce
- Make ready 3 cloves garlic (roughly chopped)
- Take 3 tbsp roughly chopped ginger
- Take 3 tbsp chinese rice cooking wine
- Take 3 tsp chinese five spices
- Make ready 1 tsp salt (or to taste)
- Make ready Red food colouring (optional)
- Make ready Glaze
- Prepare 3 tbsp honey
- Prepare Left over marinade
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. 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!
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.
Char Siu Grilled Chicken entered the world. This unique take on BBQ chicken is delicious and very easy to make. The sauce doesn't need to be cooked beforehand. This Chinese Chicken is the chicken version of Chinese Barbecue Pork. The marinade is slightly adjusted to make it more suitable for chicken - mainly less sugar because there's more surface area with chicken so I find the pork Char Siu marinade a bit too sweet and also easier to cook on the BBQ/stove without burning the marinade.
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