Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, roasted lemongrass chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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.
Roasted Lemongrass Chicken is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Roasted Lemongrass Chicken is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have roasted lemongrass chicken using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Roasted Lemongrass Chicken:
- Make ready 1 kg (about 2 lbs) chicken thigh and drumstick
- Take 2 lemongrass (white part), bruised
- Get 4 kaffir lime leaves
- Take 2 bay leaves
- Get 4 cloves
- Take 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Take 1 tbsp salt
- Make ready 2 tsp coconut/brown sugar
- Prepare 100 ml water
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground white/black pepper
- Prepare Grind the following into spice paste :
- Take 10 shallots
- Make ready 6 garlic cloves
- Take 5 red/fresno pepper, seeded
- Make ready 2 cm ginger
- Prepare 1 cm galangal (in USA only dried one available)
- Get 2 cm kaempferia galanga (in USA only dried one available)
- Take 15 candle nuts
- Take 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.
Steps 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).
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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