Chicken Char Siu
Chicken Char Siu

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chicken char siu. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chicken Char Siu is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Chicken Char Siu is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin 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 cook it.

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

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