Easy and Soft Chicken Char Siu
Easy and Soft Chicken Char Siu

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, easy and soft chicken char siu. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Warning: This Char Siu Chicken is highly addictive! You'll wonder how you ever grilled chicken thighs without this mix of honey, hoisin, garlic, soy sauce Going from-scratch for the marinade was easy. More importantly, the layers of flavors elevated the Chinese barbecue of my youth.

Easy and Soft Chicken Char Siu is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Easy and Soft Chicken Char Siu is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have easy and soft chicken char siu using 6 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy and Soft Chicken Char Siu:
  1. Take ★As long as you have chicken breasts, you are ready to go! ♪ ★
  2. Make ready 2 Chicken breasts
  3. Make ready 100 ml ☆Soy sauce
  4. Make ready 100 ml ☆Mirin
  5. Make ready 50 ml ☆Sake
  6. Make ready 3 tbsp ☆Sugar

This easy char siu chicken recipe comes from one of my favorite cookbooks of the year, Vietnamese Food Any Day: Simple Recipes for True, Fresh Flavors How To Make Char Siu Chicken. In a large bowl, stir together the garlic, five-spice powder, honey, hoisin, soy sauce, ketchup, and sesame oil. Learn how to easily make the best Chinese-style pork or chicken char siu that is perfectly tender, sticky, and sweet in the oven or roasting on the pan. Adapting Our Char Siu Pork Recipe for Chicken.

Steps to make Easy and Soft Chicken Char Siu:
  1. Here are the ingredients: Chicken breasts. There is nothing wrong with chicken on sale ♩ Poke holes both sides with a fork.
  2. Next, prepare to wrap with plastic wrap. Place the chicken on the wrap, and tightly squeeze into round shapes. Cover with the wrap to prevent them from falling apart.
  3. Microwave for 5 minutes.
  4. In the mean time, mix the ☆ ingredients, and bring the mixture to a boil in a pot. Turn off the heat.
  5. Put the microwaved chicken and the sauce into a Ziploc bag. You can put them in a Ziploc container as well. Keep the marinade at room temperature instead of putting in the fridge right away to help the chicken absorb the flavour.
  6. When cooled down to room temperature, refrigerate for about half a day. It's a little bit hard when it's cold, so when you are planning to eat, warm it up or bring up to room temperature.
  7. For those people who like strong taste, the flavor gets absorbed better when you slice the meat, then marinate.
  8. Tips: If you are planning to slice the meat then marinate, let it sit for a little while after microwaving, and slice. If you slice it right away, it's not cooked through yet.
  9. The orange topping in the picture is grated carrot.

Char siu happens to be one of my favorite things in the world. I was raised on the stuff. Sarah is the older daughter/sister in The Woks of Life family. Creator of quick and easy recipes for harried home cooks and official Woks of Life photographer, she. I cooked these char siu chicken primarily to use it as the main ingredients to make char siu buns (both steamed and baked).

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