Saturday Feast - Oriental Roast chicken 中式烤鸡

After working so hard during weekdays, we like to indulge ourselves to sinful food on saturday nights. Our all time favourite are grilled gourmet sausages, grilled drumsticks with baked potatoes, pair with some wine. And if we do go out during the day, we will get some DVDs. Good food and nice movie, this will be a perfect saturday night for us.

What we had last saturday....

Oriental Roast Chicken

Oriental Egg Custard for dessert

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Oriental Egg Custard - 燉蛋

Serves 4

Ingredients

5 eggs
2.5 cups water
60-90g rock sugar (according to taste)
2 tbs condense milk (optional - increase the amt of rock sugar if not adding this)
1-2 tsp grated ginger (optional) - juiced

Method
1) In a saucepan, bring to boil the water and dissolve the rock sugar. Remove from heat and add in condense milk. Let it cool slightly.
2) Beat the eggs lightly and stir into the sugar syrup (keep stirring). Add in the ginger juice.
3) Strain the above mixture into bowls. Steam over medium heat for 10-12min or till set.


Oriental Roast Chicken - 中式烤鸡

Ingredients

1 whole chicken
3 Tbs light soya sauce
1 Tbs dark soya sauce
2 tsp brown sugar
1 tsp 5 spice powder
1 tsp blackpepper
2 Tbs chinese shao xing wine
1 Tbs worcestershire sauce
1 Tbs grated ginger (juiced)
2 Tbs sesame oil
1 whole lemon
1 whole garlic (lightly flatten)

2.5 cups of water
pinch of salt
1 Tbs cornstarch + 1 Tbs water


Method

1) Mixed all the above in a ziplock bag, except the sesame oil.
2) Prick the lemon with a fork and stuff it together with a few cloves of garlic into the chicken. Put the whole chicken into the bag, zip it up and start to "massage" the chicken with the marinate. Leave it in the fridge for 2 hours, than add in the sesame oil. Marinate overnight or minimun 8 hours.
3) Bring chicken out from fridge and let it warm to room temperature. Preheat oven to 200 degrees.
4) In a rectangular pan, pour in the water, pinch of salt, the remaining garlic and the marinate, stir and mix well. Grill the chicken over the pan of water.
5)Baste the chicken with the mixture after 25 minutes. Grilled for a further 10 minutes than turn the chicken over, baste. Leave it to bake for further 30min or till cooked. Total grilling time about 60min-75min.
6) Once the chicken is done. Mashed the garlic in the pan and bring the mixture to boil. Thicken the mixture with cornstarch water. Pour the sauce over chicken or serve at the side.