Vietnamese Lemongrass Chicken by peachpurple
Today, I made a crucial decision on the chicken meal for
dinner.
I had to choose whether to cook a Chinese chicken recipe
which I am familiar with or a Vietnamese cuisine which I
had never tried my hands on.
After pondering for 30 minutes, I decided to try the
Vietnamese Lemongrass Chicken which I found the recipe in
a local magazine.
Surprisingly, this mild spicy chicken dish turned out a
blessing in disguise.
It blends well with spice lemongrass flavor, soft flesh texture
and infused with the marinated sweet smelling spice that
filled the kitchen
100g shallots
3 cloves garlic
1 slice ginger
1 stalk lemongrass
1 tsp 5 spice powder
2 red chillies
1 tbsp fish sauce
2 tsp brown sugar
salt and pepper to taste
1/2 chicken, cut into convenient pieces
Yield: 3-4 persons
1.In a food processor, blend shallots, garlic, ginger,
lemongrass and chillies into fine paste.
2.Season with fish sauce, sugar, 5 spice powder.
3.Marinate all chicken pieces with the fine spice paste.
4.Sprinkle salt and pepper, mix well.
5.Chill in fridge to marinate for 1 hour
6.Place chicken meat on top of foil on a baking tray.
7.bake in oven for 30-45 minutes.
8.Flip over to the uncooked sides , every 15 minutes.
9.Serve hot with white rice or fresh vegetable salad for a full
meal.
lemon grass by wikipedia
One of the secret recipe to Vietnamese Lemongrass Chicken recipe is the lemongrass itself.
Lemongrass is one of the popular used herbs used in Vietnamese recipes and local Malay cuisine too.
It has the citrus scent smell that looked alike any roadside tall grass which I had initially mistaken too.
Lemongrass is easily grown from the roots.
It grows comfortable in loose soil without any attention.
The tall long blades of leaves are pretty sharp that might cut your skin and very irritating too.
Just snip off the top leaves and pull out the roots with the bulbs.
Only them thick stems and the bulbs are needed for Vietnamese recipes.
It gives the sweet smelling fragrance when you chop the stems.
Fish sauce taken by peachpurple
Another secret ingredient to this chicken recipe is the fish sauce.
You will be surprised that most of Vietnam recipes are related to lemongrass, fish sauce and ginger.
Fish sauce is a dark brown color sauce that is fermented from raw fish, marinated with sea salt with herbs and spice.
Fish sauce gives an awful stench of fish odor that is very over powering when you smell from the mouth of the bottle.
In addition, fish sauce is salty by itself.
Hence, you do not add too much of fish sauce into your chicken recipe.
Drizzle 1 tbsp of fish sauce into 1/2 chicken parts is sufficient to season them.
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What a great recipe! You covered every thing about this recipe perfectly. Great job!
I bet this taste good and smells amazing. I like the scent of lemongrass.
@peachpurple I have never used lemongrass and brown sugar in any chicken recipe. Since you found the dish to be tasty and delicious I must add these two ingredients in my chicken dishes.