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]]>‘Char Siu’ means a Chinese dish of roast pork that requires an overnight marinate for good flavour. However, this is made with chicken, a healthier version and only needs a minimum of 30 minutes marinate time. Char Siu Chicken is an asian style of BBQ Chicken and is a perfect protein dish to pair with noodles or rice.
This recipe is done with Boneless, Skinless Chicken Thigh Fillets. However, the marinade can be used for white meat (Chicken tenderloins/breasts) and even a Vegan Char Siu which is made with Tofu or Seitan or Mushrooms. Just remember that the cooking time will be reduced to half for white meat and tofu.
It involves only a few simple steps. All you need is to combine the ingredients and marinate the chicken, then grill or roast to perfection. It’s seriously all about the marinade. Oven roasting the chicken yields perfectly fine flavour, but grilling it produces a wonderful old-school character.
I know my chicken does not look so charred and the reason being that I only opted for 1 teaspoon of honey due to health reasons. The chicken still tasted great, but just not it’s maximum sweet or charred. To test for doneness, pierce the flesh with the tip of a knife: The chicken is cooked when clear juices flow out.
Chicken, Garlic, Chinese 5 Spice, Hoisin Sauce, Sesame Oil, Soya Sauce, Tomato Ketchup (OR fermented red beancurd OR Natural Food Colouring), Dark Soya Sauce, Honey.
I marinate the chicken thigh fillets for at least 30 minutes if pressed for time. If you have the time, then marinating it longer would yield best results.
Grilling over the stove top in a cast iron grill pan gives me more control in turning over the chicken pieces. You can roast it in the oven or even air fry it…whatever you prefer.
I normally serve this Char Siu Chicken with Wonton Noodles or Rice, paired with green vegetables. If you like noodles, then I am sure you will like my :
and Quick Pickled Green Chillies
Tomorrow I will make Vegan Char Siu Chicken and post the link as soon as I am able to blog it!
Notice the Char Siu with Rice looks more charred and fully cooked than the one with the noodles. I made 2 versions : on stovetop during first attempt which was not so charred, served with noodles. The reason for this is because I used much less honey and did not increase the grilling time. (Honey and sugar gives the old school charred look).
The second attempt was done in my Ninja Foodi MAX Health Grill & Air Fryer. This of course meant that the grilling was all done automatically for me and it still took only 10 minutes! No effort needed and turned out superb!
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