How to Cook Savory Style Chicken
Savory style chicken is a flavorful, tender dish infused with aromatic herbs and spices, featuring a perfectly crisped skin and juicy meat that delights the palate.
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 323kcal
Ingredients
- 1 whole dressed chicken
- 1 bundle lemon grass or tanglad crushed
- Sesame oil (optional)
For the marinade:
- 1 bundle lemon grass crushed, chopped
- 1 head garlic crushed
- 1 cup soy sauce
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp ground pepper
- 1 tsp Five-spice powder or 3 pcs whole star anise, also called "sanque"
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- spring onions chopped
- 2 pcs bay leaves
Gravy ingredients:
- 3 Tbsp. cooking oil
- 1/4 cup flour
- 2 cups chicken stock
- 1 Tbsp. peanut butter unsweetened
- 1/8 tsp Five-spice powder
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
How to Cook Savory Style Chicken:
- Mix all marinade ingredients (except bay leaves) and put in a blender.
- Blend marinade mixture on low until lemongrass and garlic are finely chopped. Set aside.
- Filter and discard solid particles of the marinade mixture using a sieve.
- Combine chicken, marinade mixture and bay leaves in a plastic zip-loc bag, marinate overnight in refrigerator.
- The following day, stuff chicken with lemongrass. Let stand for about 30 mins.
- Roast chicken in oven at 425°F for 1 1/2 hour (Note: a better way is to use a probe thermometer and when the internal temperature of the thickest part of the chicken reaches 175°, remove the chicken from the oven).
- Prepare basting sauce by mixing 2 tbsp. sesame oil to the marinade, baste chicken in oven every 15-20 mins.
- Roast until golden brown.
- Serve with the prepared gravy (See gravy recipe below).
You can also fry the chicken by following these procedure:
- Mix all the marinade ingredients in a pot and pour 2 cups of water.
- Stuff the chicken with lemon grass and put it in the pot with the marinade.
- Boil until half cooked. Drain the chicken and then deep fry until the skin is brown and crispy.
- Serve with the gravy (see recipe below).
How to make the gravy:
- Mix cooking oil and 1/4 cup flour.
- Stir mixture in a sauce pan over low heat for about 4 minutes, until the color changes to brown.
- Mix the remaining flour into the chicken broth and pour in to the pan.
- Add five spice powder and peanut butter
- Bring the mixture to a boil and stir cook for a few minutes until the mixture thickens
- Add more broth if necessary. Add salt and pepper to taste.