Chicken Char Siu
Chicken Char Siu

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, chicken char siu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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.

Chicken Char Siu is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Chicken Char Siu is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken char siu using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

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

Remove about half the marinade and set aside for glazing. This Chinese Chicken is made with the same Char Siu marinade as the wildly popular Chinese Barbecue Pork. Build a medium-heat fire in a charcoal. Skinless, boneless chicken thighs are a tender and tasty substitute with less fat.

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.

Adapting Our Char Siu Pork Recipe for Chicken. Char siu happens to be one of my favorite things in the world. I was raised on the stuff. I remember taking it to preschool for lunch. Who says that char siu is limited to pork?

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