Roasted Lemongrass Chicken
Roasted Lemongrass Chicken

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, roasted lemongrass chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Roasted Lemongrass Chicken is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Roasted Lemongrass Chicken is something which I have loved my entire life.

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.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have roasted lemongrass chicken using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Roasted Lemongrass Chicken:
  1. Prepare 1 kg (about 2 lbs) chicken thigh and drumstick
  2. Get 2 lemongrass (white part), bruised
  3. Take 4 kaffir lime leaves
  4. Take 2 bay leaves
  5. Take 4 cloves
  6. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  7. Get 1 tbsp salt
  8. Make ready 2 tsp coconut/brown sugar
  9. Prepare 100 ml water
  10. Take 1/2 tsp ground white/black pepper
  11. Prepare Grind the following into spice paste :
  12. Make ready 10 shallots
  13. Get 6 garlic cloves
  14. Take 5 red/fresno pepper, seeded
  15. Prepare 2 cm ginger
  16. Take 1 cm galangal (in USA only dried one available)
  17. Prepare 2 cm kaempferia galanga (in USA only dried one available)
  18. Get 15 candle nuts
  19. Get 1 tsp shrimp paste

Heat a wok or large skillet over medium-high heat; swirl in oil. 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.

Instructions to make Roasted Lemongrass Chicken:
  1. Preheat oven to 350° F.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Put the baking dish into the oven. Bake for an hour.
  5. 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).

Roast chicken with a Thai twist! Lemongrass chicken is a famous dish throughout much of Southeast-Asia, and my Thai roasted lemongrass chicken recipe is particularly fragrant and moist. Imbued with the flavors of both lemon and lime, you'll find this roasted chicken delicious as is, or serve it together with my sweet lime sauce for a delectable. Combine rest of ingredients and place inside chicken cavity. Add the chicken and cook on all sides, getting a really good color all over it.

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