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.

Chicken Char Siu This chicken is finger licking good, a must try recipe! 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.

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we're going to make a special dish, chicken char siu. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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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.

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

Composition Chicken Char Siu:

Provide 1 kg for Chicken thigh fillet / breast.
Need for Marinade.
Need 3-4 tbsp for maltose/honey.
You need 3 cubes - red fermented tofu.
Need 3 tbsp of the red fermented tofu liquid.
You need 3 tbsp of housin sauce.
Provide 3 cloves - garlic (roughly chopped).
Require 3 tbsp of roughly chopped ginger.
Give 3 tbsp - chinese rice cooking wine.
Require 3 tsp chinese five spices.
Need 1 tsp for salt (or to taste).
Require for Red food colouring (optional).
Give Glaze.
Need 3 tbsp - honey.
Prepare for Left over marinade.

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. 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!

Chicken Char Siu start cooking:

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..

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. This Chinese Chicken is the chicken version of Chinese Barbecue Pork. The marinade is slightly adjusted to make it more suitable for chicken - mainly less sugar because there's more surface area with chicken so I find the pork Char Siu marinade a bit too sweet and also easier to cook on the BBQ/stove without burning the marinade.

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