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Today is Char Siu chicken thighs. Bone in and skin on. Instead of the typical braising method used in soy sauce chicken, im going to sear the skin side in a pan then cook them in the oven on a rack at a slightly lower temp. I like thighs but they tend to be a bit too greasy for my taste.
 
Basting sauce will be mostly honey, garlic and probably some Mae Ploy sweet chili sauce.
 
Getting close.
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There is a trick to getting color correct without food coloring. Even the rack in the over needs to be just right. The glaze was about perfect imo.
 
Roughly
3 parts honey
2 parts Mae Ploy sweet chili sauce.
1 part minced garlic
1 part reduced sodium soy sauce
I threw in a pinch of 5 spice too...literally a pinch and all my "parts" were around a tbs or slightly more.
 
The marinade though probably needed a tiny bit more sugar and salt or soy. As long as you got a piece of skin with the meat is was awesome. Very little heat though. If it was hotter it would have been similar to hot braised chicken.
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Had an onsite up near my old neighborhood and had to stop by the place with Bum Bum chicken and the best damn gizzards ive had anywhere.
 
Man i love these things.
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Huge togo box of gizzards, I probably had already eaten 6 on the way home.
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BBQ version made with pork steak that were about an inch thick.
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Got them moved to one side now with that burner turned off so they are only getting indirect heat from the other burner.
 
going to throw in a curve ball here.....for all you sous vide'ers and non sv'ers i guess. I made a delicious chashu (japanese slow cooked pork belly) then used the liquid it cooked in as a base for some ramen. Instead of 36 hours i did 72. Here is the combination of recipes 

chashu: http://www.tinyurbankitchen.com/36-hour-sous-vide-chashu-pork-belly/
 
 
If you don't have a sous vide, you can skip that part and just follow the rest of the recipe here (and quicker chashu)
Ramen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8pH_H4caRQ&t
 

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Japanese Chasu is similar to Chinese Dong Po Rou. Ive had Dong Po and Hong Shao versions of pork belly. I love the stuff on steamed rice.
 
When i cook pork belly i boil it first for a couple minutes. Remove the foam. Rinse it off. Then put it skin side down in hot oil for several minutes. Clean the pot out then braise it. This helps remove a tiny bit of the fat, most of the scum and i like the way the skin cooks.
 
This stuff is insanely good. Add garlic to this recipe and crisp the skin side a little.
http://thewoksoflife.com/2015/10/braised-pork-belly-dong-po-rou/
 
I don't make this too often because i will gorge on it and its crazy high in sodium. Plus finding good meaty pork side belly is a chore. Very fatty pork belly is easy but you end up with way more fat than meat.
 
Korean style started marinating today. Using my last 2 thick cut pork steaks.
 
  • ½ cup of crushed pear
  • ¼ cup onion purée
  • 6 cloves of minced garlic
  • ½ ts of minced ginger
  • 1 chopped green onion
  • 3 tbs sweet sake or mirin
  • 1 tbs of sugar and 1½ tbs rice syrup or honey
  • a pinch of ground black pepper
  • 2 ts of toasted sesame oil
  • 1 tbs hot pepper paste
  • 1 tbs pepper flakes
  • 1 tbs Hoisin sauce
Also added 2 tbs of reduced sodium soy sauce.
 
48hr marinate time
10-15min each side on the grill
20min in the oven at $250 sofar
 
This cam just does not work well on intelligent iso indoors....gunna have to work on that.
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I picked up some good dark soy sauce the other day so i can try again. Upped the soy sauce and sugar. I mixed Rothchild Farm roasted pineapple hab sauce with the Char Sui sauce for the glaze.
 
Char Siu Gai Aloha
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