Chicken Char Siu
Chicken Char Siu

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chicken char siu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. 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 recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Chicken Char Siu is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started 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 can achieve 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. Prepare 3 cubes red fermented tofu
  5. Take 3 tbsp the red fermented tofu liquid
  6. Make ready 3 tbsp housin sauce
  7. Get 3 cloves garlic (roughly chopped)
  8. Take 3 tbsp roughly chopped ginger
  9. Make ready 3 tbsp chinese rice cooking wine
  10. Take 3 tsp chinese five spices
  11. Prepare 1 tsp salt (or to taste)
  12. Make ready Red food colouring (optional)
  13. Take Glaze
  14. Take 3 tbsp honey
  15. Get Left over marinade

Transfer your char siu grilled chicken to a serving platter, brush with the reserved sauce, and serve. Char siu is a popular way to flavor and prepare barbecued pork in Cantonese cuisine. It is classified as a type of siu mei (燒味), Cantonese roasted meat. Build a medium-heat fire in a charcoal.

Steps 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.

The key to this Grilled Chinese Char Siu Chicken recipe is to let the chicken marinate in the char siu sauce for two days. The color is brilliant and the flavors run deep. Who says that char siu is limited to pork? Try this chicken variation and you'll be convinced otherwise. In a bowl, combine the sesame oil, sugar, soy sauces, and cooking wine.

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