How to Make Tasty Roasted Lemongrass Chicken

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The chicken is done when its juices run clear. Roast chicken with a Thai twist! Lemongrass chicken is a famous dish throughout much of Southeast-Asia, and my Thai roasted lemongrass chicken recipe is particularly fragrant and moist. You can have Roasted Lemongrass Chicken using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Roasted Lemongrass Chicken

It's 1 kg of (about 2 lbs) chicken thigh and drumstick.
Prepare 2 of lemongrass (white part), bruised.
It's 4 of kaffir lime leaves.
It's 2 of bay leaves.
It's 4 of cloves.
It's 1/2 teaspoon of ground nutmeg.
It's 1 tbsp of salt.
Prepare 2 tsp of coconut/brown sugar.
Prepare 100 ml of water.
It's 1/2 tsp of ground white/black pepper.
You need of Grind the following into spice paste :.
You need 10 of shallots.
Prepare 6 of garlic cloves.
You need 5 of red/fresno pepper, seeded.
It's 2 cm of ginger.
You need 1 cm of galangal (in USA only dried one available).
Prepare 2 cm of kaempferia galanga (in USA only dried one available).
It's 15 of candle nuts.
It's 1 tsp of shrimp paste.

Imbued with the flavors of both lemon and lime, you'll find this roasted chicken delicious as is, or serve it together with my sweet lime sauce for a delectable. How to serve the lemongrass chicken. The lemongrass chicken can be a stand-alone meal. It is also ideal for serving with soup noodles.

Roasted Lemongrass Chicken instructions

Preheat oven to 350° F..
Heat about 3 tablespoons of oil. Sauté spice paste, lemon grass, lime leaves, bay leaves, cloves and nutmeg until they get darker color and cooked. Add chicken, water, salt, sugar and pepper. Stir well. Turn the heat off..
Prepare a baking dish, lined with aluminum foil. Put the chicken (make sure the skin is facing up) and the spice into the aluminum foil. Wrap tight..
Put the baking dish into the oven. Bake for an hour..
Take the baking dish out, open the aluminum foil wrap. Taste the sauce, add salt/sugar if necessary, do not forget to stir evenly if there is addition of salt/sugar. Put the baking dish back into the oven. Bake for another 15-20 minutes (until the chicken/sauce surface looks roasted)..

To serve, cut the chicken thigh to three or four large pieces, place it on steamed rice as the topping of a bowl of noodles, and drizzle some scallion oil (please refer to the recipe) on it as a garnish. Drain chicken from marinade and pat dry. Bring to room temperature and arrange breast-side up on a roasting pan. Heat a wok or large skillet over medium-high heat; swirl in oil. Notes *Lemongrass: To properly cut lemongrass, first pull off the reedy outer few leaves until you reach the more tender leaves on the inside.