Easiest Way to Prepare Delicious Chicken Char Siu

Chicken Char Siu.

You can cook Chicken Char Siu using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chicken Char Siu

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

Chicken Char Siu instructions

1. Marination - Clean chicken. Combine ingredients for marination in a big bowl. Stir to mix. Use this to Marinate chicken fillets for 24hours. Refrigerate..
2. 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..
3. Set up chicken on the tray that comes with a roasting rack. Preheat oven to 400 F /200 C..
4. 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..
5. Once done, let it rest for 10-15mins. Slice & serve or Refrigerate for other uses like bao / buns filling, siu pau etc..