Chinese Style Roast Chicken

 

Ingredients:

1 chicken

1 tbsp. grated ginger

1 tbsp. sugar

1 tbsp. Shaoxing wine

1/2 tbsp. dark soy sauce

2 pieces red fermented bean curd

1 tbsp. red bean curd juice

Methods:

1. Cut open the chicken from the breast, clean well and wipe dry with kitchen paper.
2. In a bowl, mix all the other ingredients.
3. Place the chicken into a large zip lock bag.
4. Pour marinade ingredients over chicken. Squish bag and marinate overnight in the fridge.  In between marination, I will squish the bag, turn the chicken to ensure even marination.
5. Place chicken in room temperature for 1 hour before roasting.
6. Place chicken, skin side up on a rack over a roasting pan.  Pour leftover marinade chicken sauce into a bowl.
7. Roast at 180 degree Celsius for 50 minutes to 1 hour.  Adjust time according to size of chicken.
8. Take chicken out from oven, brush marinade chicken sauce while roasting, repeat 2-3 times.  No need to turn over the chicken.
9. Finally, apply honey over the chicken and bake for another 5 minutes.
10. Check doneness of chicken by using a knife to pierce on the thickest part of the chicken leg, if no blood flows out, it's done.
11. Remove chicken from oven and let it rest for a while before carving/cutting.

I use this marinade ingredients for Chicken Wings, and it turn out yummylicious and looking so good.

This recipe is adapted from Youtube,'Karen Ling's Kitchen.'