Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chicken char siu. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chicken Char Siu is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Chicken Char Siu is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to 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:
- Get 1 kg Chicken thigh fillet / breast
- Get Marinade
- Make ready 3-4 tbsp maltose/honey
- Get 3 cubes red fermented tofu
- Prepare 3 tbsp the red fermented tofu liquid
- Make ready 3 tbsp housin sauce
- Take 3 cloves garlic (roughly chopped)
- Prepare 3 tbsp roughly chopped ginger
- Prepare 3 tbsp chinese rice cooking wine
- Get 3 tsp chinese five spices
- Make ready 1 tsp salt (or to taste)
- Prepare Red food colouring (optional)
- Get Glaze
- Take 3 tbsp honey
- Get Left over marinade
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.
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