Easiest Way to Make Yummy Chicken Char Siu

Chicken Char Siu. 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.

Char siu chicken, made with with brown sugar, sriracha, and Chinese five-spice, makes this dish a surefire crowd-pleaser. Char Siu Chicken - crazy delicious oven-roasted chicken with sweet, sticky and savory Chinese Char Siu marinade. This chicken is finger licking good, a must try recipe! You can cook Chicken Char Siu using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chicken Char Siu

1. Prepare 1 kg of Chicken thigh fillet / breast.
2. You need of Marinade.
3. Prepare 3-4 tbsp of maltose/honey.
4. Prepare 3 cubes of red fermented tofu.
5. Prepare 3 tbsp of the red fermented tofu liquid.
6. It's 3 tbsp of housin sauce.
7. It's 3 cloves of garlic (roughly chopped).
8. You need 3 tbsp of roughly chopped ginger.
9. Prepare 3 tbsp of chinese rice cooking wine.
10. It's 3 tsp of chinese five spices.
11. You need 1 tsp of salt (or to taste).
12. You need of Red food colouring (optional).
13. Prepare of Glaze.
14. You need 3 tbsp of honey.
15. Prepare of 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.

Chicken Char Siu step by step

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. This is my version of Char Siu Chicken (BBQ Chicken) & Chinese Fried Rice. One of my favorites at Asian restaurants. Complex looking dish, but in reality, its actually very easy and fun to make. 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!

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