Chicken Char Siu
Chicken Char Siu

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, chicken char siu. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Chicken Char Siu is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Chicken Char Siu is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken char siu using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

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