Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, roasted lemongrass chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. 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. Roast chicken with a Thai twist!
Roasted Lemongrass Chicken is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Roasted Lemongrass Chicken is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular 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 it.
The ingredients needed to make Roasted Lemongrass Chicken:
- Make ready 1 kg (about 2 lbs) chicken thigh and drumstick
- Make ready 2 lemongrass (white part), bruised
- Take 4 kaffir lime leaves
- Prepare 2 bay leaves
- Make ready 4 cloves
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Take 1 tbsp salt
- Make ready 2 tsp coconut/brown sugar
- Take 100 ml water
- Take 1/2 tsp ground white/black pepper
- Get Grind the following into spice paste :
- Make ready 10 shallots
- Get 6 garlic cloves
- Prepare 5 red/fresno pepper, seeded
- Prepare 2 cm ginger
- Take 1 cm galangal (in USA only dried one available)
- Take 2 cm kaempferia galanga (in USA only dried one available)
- Make ready 15 candle nuts
- Get 1 tsp shrimp paste
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. Juicy, fragrant Lemongrass Chicken infused with a dynamic marinade is stand-alone-delicious but also makes killer salads, wraps and zoodle/quinoa/rice bowls! 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!
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).
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. Put the chicken, breast side down, on a rack in a roasting pan. Roast chicken is absolutely everyone's favourite. This roast chicken is even more special because it has lemon grass and few other spices in them.
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