Recipe: Perfect Roasted Lemongrass Chicken

Roasted Lemongrass Chicken.

You can have Roasted Lemongrass Chicken using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Roasted Lemongrass Chicken

1. You need of (about 2 lbs) chicken thigh and drumstick.
2. Prepare of lemongrass (white part), bruised.
3. You need of kaffir lime leaves.
4. Prepare of bay leaves.
5. It's of cloves.
6. Prepare of ground nutmeg.
7. You need of salt.
8. Prepare of coconut/brown sugar.
9. You need of water.
10. It's of ground white/black pepper.
11. It's of Grind the following into spice paste :.
12. You need of shallots.
13. Prepare of garlic cloves.
14. It's of red/fresno pepper, seeded.
15. Prepare of ginger.
16. It's of galangal (in USA only dried one available).
17. It's of kaempferia galanga (in USA only dried one available).
18. It's of candle nuts.
19. It's of shrimp paste.

Roasted Lemongrass Chicken step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350° F..
2. 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..
3. 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..
4. Put the baking dish into the oven. Bake for an hour..
5. 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)..

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