Chicken Char Siu
Chicken Char Siu

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, chicken char siu. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a 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 popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Chicken Char Siu is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have chicken char siu using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Char Siu:
  1. Get 1 kg Chicken thigh fillet / breast
  2. Make ready Marinade
  3. Get 3-4 tbsp maltose/honey
  4. Prepare 3 cubes red fermented tofu
  5. Make ready 3 tbsp the red fermented tofu liquid
  6. Prepare 3 tbsp housin sauce
  7. Prepare 3 cloves garlic (roughly chopped)
  8. Make ready 3 tbsp roughly chopped ginger
  9. Prepare 3 tbsp chinese rice cooking wine
  10. Make ready 3 tsp chinese five spices
  11. Get 1 tsp salt (or to taste)
  12. Make ready Red food colouring (optional)
  13. Take Glaze
  14. Get 3 tbsp honey
  15. 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.

Instructions to make Chicken Char Siu:
  1. Marination - Clean chicken. Combine ingredients for marination in a big bowl. Stir to mix. Use this to Marinate chicken fillets for 24hours. Refrigerate.
  2. 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.
  3. Set up chicken on the tray that comes with a roasting rack. Preheat oven to 400 F /200 C.
  4. 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.
  5. 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. This unique take on BBQ chicken is delicious and very easy to make. The sauce doesn't need to be cooked beforehand.

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