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Vietnamese Roast Chicken
Vietnamese Roast Chicken
This is one of my favorite ways to prepare chicken pieces. The marinade has a lot of sweet and salty going on. Definitely not for people trying to watch their sugar intake. With that being said give this a try. All of the ingredients aren’t out of the ordinary and can be found at any grocery store.There are many options for the chicken. You can simply buy a whole chicken and cut it up into 10 pieces instead of 8. I would recommend cutting the breast in half so that they are the same size as the thighs. This helps everything cook at the same rate. Another option that you can do is buy all thighs or whole legs, or whatever part of the chicken that you like the best. The marinade is enough for 3lbs of chicken. This chicken is also great on the grill. You would want grill the pieces indirectly. Grill skin side down with the grill covered for about 20 minutes, making sure that the chicken doesn’t burn. Flip it skin side up and cook for another 20 minutes. Depending on how big your chicken pieces are, it will take 4-50 minutes total time. White meat has to be cooked to 160 degrees; dark meat to 180 degrees.
Ingredients
- 3 lbs cut up whole chicken or thighs
- 1/2 cup oyster sauce
- 1/2 tsp 5 spice powder
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 6 garlic cloves minced
- 1 tbsp minced lemongrass
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1 tbsp cooking wine
- 1 tbsp light soy sauce
- 1 tbsp flour
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 tbsp fish sauce
Instructions
- Mix all marinade ingredients together.
- Marinate the chicken pieces for at least 2 hours, preferably overnight.
- Preheat your oven to 325. Place your chicken thighs on a rack on a baking sheet covered in foil. Roast the chicken thighs for 50 minutes or until the internal temp reads 180 degrees.
- Don’t worry about the chicken looking more “done” than you are used to. This is called caramelization. There is a lot of sugar in the marinade.
Bossam (Boiled Pork Belly Wraps)
Bossam (Boiled Pork Wraps)
This is a fun dish to make for a group of people. It requires some time to prep, but is worth it in the end. Pork belly is rubbed down with the marinade and slow cooked for 4 hours, then glazed and put into a wrap. There are many other things that can go into these wraps such as oysters, salted shrimp, kimchi, just to name a few. So lets talk about what goes into these wraps.The wrap is usually made out of cabbage leaves that have been soaking in salt water for an extended period of time. Since cabbage has a lot of water in in already, the salt helps draw out moisture, allowing the leaves to be more flexible for wrapping. You can substitute red or green leaf lettuce for cabbage if you’d like.Perilla leaves are hard to find. They don’t carry them at the asian market I go to. Luckily I live a block form a Korean grocery store that does carry them fresh. They taste like a cross between basil and mint.The Korean radish salad is pretty much kimchi daikon. It contains all of the same ingredients as kimchi. The radish salad I used was purchased from the deli section of my Korean grocery store already prepared.Pachae refers to green onion cut in 4″ pieces, then sliced vertically very thin. The green onions are then soaked in cold water for 10 minutes. This will rid them of the pungency that comes with green onion, giving them a fresh taste.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 lb skin on pork belly
- 1 medium onion sliced
Pork Belly Marinade
- 4 garlic cloves minced
- 1 tbsp minced ginger
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp Korean fermented soybean paste
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
Pork Belly Glaze
- 2 tbsp dark soy sauce
- 2 tbsp rice wine
- 4 tbsp pork belly marinade
- 1 tbsp sugar
Pork Belly Wraps
- salted cabbage leaves
- perilla leaves
- glazed pork belly
- korean radish salad
- pachae (green onion)
Instructions
- Mix all of the marinade ingredients together. Set aside.
- Layer the bottom of a slow cooker with sliced onions.
- Rub the marinade over the pork belly and lay across the bed of onions. Cook on low for 4 hours.
- While the pork belly is slow cooking, peel off the leaves of a Napa cabbage and let them soak in salt water for at least 2 hours. Wash and drain and set aside.
- To make the pachae, cut green onions in 4″ pieces.
- Slice the green onions the long way, as thin as possible. Soak in cold water for 10 minutes to get rid of the pungency. Drain and set aside.
- When finished slow cooking, remove form slow cooker and set aside.
- Mix all of the glaze ingredients together. Heat in a large sauce pan over medium heat.
- Add the pork belly to the glaze. Braise in the pan for 4-5 minutes a side.
- Each side of the pork should be darker in color for the glaze.
- Set aside the pork belly.
Bossam Assembly
- Place a perilla leaf in the center of a cabbage leaf.
- Put a chunk of pork belly on the perilla leaf.
- Place a tablespoon of the Korean radish salad onto of the pork belly. Top it off with the pachae.
- Wrap it up and eat the hell out it.
- This is even good just eating the pork belly on a perilla leaf with some of the pachae.
Jjimdak (Korean Braised Chicken)
Jjimdak (Korean Braised Chicken)
In Korean, jjim translates into braised and dak translates into chicken. This Korean dish is extremely easy to make and doesn’t require any out of the ordinary ingredients. Another 1 pot meal by 1 pothead!
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 2.5-3 lbs whole chicken legs
- 2 cups water
- 2 medium potatoes 1″ cubes
- 2 medium carrots 1’2″ pieces
- 1/2 medium onion diced
- 4 mushrooms sliced
- 2 green onion chopped
- 4 whole Thai chilis
- 2 tbsp minced garlic
- 1 tbsp minced ginger
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
Braising Liquid
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 2 tbsp oyster sauce
- 2 tbsp rice cooking wine
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 4 tbsp corn syrup or 3 tbsp of honey
- 1 tsp black pepper
Garnish
- toasted sesame seeds
Instructions
- Time to cut up some chicken! With a cleaver, cut the bone in thighs into 3 pieces.
- Cut the drumsticks into 3 pieces.
- Now that’s a fuckpile of chicken pieces!
- Mix all of the braising liquid ingredients together.
- In a large pot, add the chicken pieces, water, and braising liquid. Bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes.
- Stir in the potatoes, carrots, onion, mushrooms, garlic, ginger, and Thai chilis. Cover and cook for 10 minutes.
- Add in the green onions and sesame oil. Cook for another 5 minutes, uncovered.
- Bowl it up. Garnish with toasted sesame seeds.
