Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, roasted lemongrass chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Drain chicken from marinade and pat dry. Bring to room temperature and arrange breast-side up on a roasting pan. Add to a bowl, along with the chicken, and toss to coat the chicken in the marinade.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook roasted lemongrass chicken using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Roasted Lemongrass Chicken:
- Take 1 kg (about 2 lbs) chicken thigh and drumstick
- Make ready 2 lemongrass (white part), bruised
- Make ready 4 kaffir lime leaves
- Get 2 bay leaves
- Get 4 cloves
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Get 1 tbsp salt
- Get 2 tsp coconut/brown sugar
- Make ready 100 ml water
- Get 1/2 tsp ground white/black pepper
- Get Grind the following into spice paste :
- Take 10 shallots
- Make ready 6 garlic cloves
- Get 5 red/fresno pepper, seeded
- Get 2 cm ginger
- Get 1 cm galangal (in USA only dried one available)
- Get 2 cm kaempferia galanga (in USA only dried one available)
- Make ready 15 candle nuts
- Get 1 tsp shrimp paste
The lemongrass chicken can be a stand-alone meal. It is also ideal for serving with soup noodles. To serve, cut the chicken thigh to three or four large pieces, place it on steamed rice as the topping of a bowl of noodles, and drizzle some scallion oil (please refer to the recipe) on it as a garnish. Heat a wok or large skillet over medium-high heat; swirl in oil.
Instructions to make Roasted Lemongrass Chicken:
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- Heat about 3 tablespoons of oil. Sauté spice paste, lemon grass, lime leaves, bay leaves, cloves and nutmeg until they get darker color and cooked. Add chicken, water, salt, sugar and pepper. Stir well. Turn the heat off.
- Prepare a baking dish, lined with aluminum foil. Put the chicken (make sure the skin is facing up) and the spice into the aluminum foil. Wrap tight.
- Put the baking dish into the oven. Bake for an hour.
- Take the baking dish out, open the aluminum foil wrap. Taste the sauce, add salt/sugar if necessary, do not forget to stir evenly if there is addition of salt/sugar. Put the baking dish back into the oven. Bake for another 15-20 minutes (until the chicken/sauce surface looks roasted).
Notes *Lemongrass: To properly cut lemongrass, first pull off the reedy outer few leaves until you reach the more tender leaves on the inside. Vietnamese Lemongrass Chicken is not only marinated with lemongrass but red curry paste, Asian sweet chili sauce, garlic, ginger, basil, soy sauce and fish sauce for a tantalizing complex, can't-stop-eating chicken! Pound chicken thighs flat, marinate in a mixture of lemongrass, soy sauce, and fish sauce, and grill to get delicious, Vietnamese-style chicken. Add the chicken and cook on all sides, getting a really good color all over it. Add the reserved chiles, reserved lemongrass, and the onion and stir-fry until the onion starts to soften.
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