Chicken Char Siu. 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, and Chinese five-spice powder. Char siu chicken, made with with brown sugar, sriracha, and Chinese five-spice, makes this dish a surefire crowd-pleaser.

Char Siu Grilled Chicken entered the world. It's juicy, delicious, and actually very easy to make. Prepare the char siu chicken: Pat the chicken thighs with paper towels to remove excess moisture, then trim and discard any big fat pads. You can have Chicken Char Siu using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chicken Char Siu

You need 1 kg of Chicken thigh fillet / breast.
It's of Marinade.
It's 3-4 tbsp of maltose/honey.
Prepare 3 cubes of red fermented tofu.
Prepare 3 tbsp of the red fermented tofu liquid.
You need 3 tbsp of housin sauce.
You need 3 cloves of garlic (roughly chopped).
It's 3 tbsp of roughly chopped ginger.
It's 3 tbsp of chinese rice cooking wine.
Prepare 3 tsp of chinese five spices.
You need 1 tsp of salt (or to taste).
Prepare of Red food colouring (optional).
It's of Glaze.
Prepare 3 tbsp of honey.
You need of Left over marinade.

If the thighs are large or super uneven in thickness, butterfly. Build a medium-heat fire in a charcoal. Char siu is a popular way to flavor and prepare barbecued pork in Cantonese cuisine. It is classified as a type of siu mei (??????), Cantonese roasted meat.

Chicken Char Siu instructions

Marination - Clean chicken. Combine ingredients for marination in a big bowl. Stir to mix. Use this to Marinate chicken fillets for 24hours. Refrigerate..
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..
Set up chicken on the tray that comes with a roasting rack. Preheat oven to 400 F /200 C..
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..
Once done, let it rest for 10-15mins. Slice & serve or Refrigerate for other uses like bao / buns filling, siu pau etc..

This Chinese Chicken is made with the same Char Siu marinade as the wildly popular Chinese Barbecue Pork. The key to this Grilled Chinese Char Siu Chicken recipe is to let the chicken marinate in the char siu sauce for two days. The color is brilliant and the flavors run deep. Who says that char siu is limited to pork? Try this chicken variation and you'll be convinced otherwise.