roast sweet lemongrass chicken. While the chicken rests, toss the cucumbers, shallot, and cilantro in the sweet chili sauce and rice vinegar. Serve the chicken with the cucumber salad. Roast chicken with a Thai twist!
After the chicken is marinated, the marinade isn't discarded, but added to.
This Vietnamese Lemongrass Chicken recipe is made with the BEST citrusy lemongrass marinade, and can be grilled, baked or sautéed -- you choose!
Or, if you're not into chicken, this marinade could just as easily be used to make lemongrass beef, pork, shrimp, scallops, fish, roasted veggies.
You can have roast sweet lemongrass chicken using 4 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of roast sweet lemongrass chicken
- Prepare 1 of chicken.
- Prepare 1 tsp of ground lemongrass.
- You need 1 tsp of mixed herbs (thyme,rosemary,basil,oregano,sage).
- Prepare 1/2 cup of sweet chilli sauce.
This is really flavorful and juicy roast chicken. Even my husband, who is growing tired of chicken, picks the bird clean when I make this one. Vietnamese Lemongrass Chicken is not only marinated with lemongrass but red curry paste, Asian sweet chili sauce, garlic, ginger, basil, soy sauce This Lemongrass Chicken is tangy, the perfect combo of sweet and sour with hints of lemon and herbs. A last-minute basting of a lemongrass and cilantro paste gives this dish a wonderful aroma.
roast sweet lemongrass chicken instructions
- preheat oven to 180.
- chop chicken into portions.
- sprinkle lemongrass,mixed herbs .n drizzle sweet chilli sauce over chicken pieces.
- put in oven n cook for 45mins to 1 hour (depending on size of chicken ..push a skewer into chicken n you'll know its cooked if liquid runs out clear)...
The tangy ginger-lime dipping sauce is also great with other roasted or grilled meats and with steamed fish. It is very easy, simple spices are used like garlic, olive oil, rosemary and of course lemongrass. Here's what goes in the Lemongrass Chicken. Fresh lemongrass is best here, but if you can't find it, then lemongrass paste works very well too. Nuoc Cham is made with fish sauce, rice vinegar, sugar, garlic, chilli, sugar and lime juice.