Sticky Asian Roast Chicken
Try this roast chicken with a delicious Asian twist! The chicken is poached in soy sauce and spices then roasted with a sticky, sweet and savoury honey oyster sauce glaze. Serve with fragrant coriander rice and steamed greens.
Ingredients
To poach the chicken
- 2 cups soy sauce use GF soy sauce if needed
- 3 cloves garlic sliced
- 6 slices fresh ginger
- 2 whole star anise
- 1½ L water
For the glaze
- ½ cup Oyster sauce
- 3 tbsp Airborne Manuka honey
To serve
- 1 pack Fresh Grower Shanghai Pak Choy
- 500 g white long grain rice cooked
- Superb Herb coriander roughly chopped
Instructions
- In a large pot (large enough to poach the whole chicken), mix soy sauce and water. Add garlic, ginger and star anise then bring to boil. Add the chicken, cover and simmer for 30 minutes. Stand chicken in liquid for 5 minutes. Remove chicken and put on a roasting tray.
- Preheat oven to 160°C. Mix honey and oyster sauce in a small bowl to make the glaze.
- Brush the chicken with the glazing evenly. Put in the oven and bake for 30-45 minutes until golden and cooked through. Blush with more glaze every 10-15 minutes during the cooking.
- While the chicken is in the oven, heat the rice according to the packet instructions and steam the Shanghai pak choy.
- Garnish chicken with coriander and serve hot with rice and steamed pak choy.
Notes
We love to serve this gorgeous sweet & savoury chicken with a refreshingly crisp Giesen Sauvignon Blanc.
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Amazing ! so so good ?
Did you really mean two cups. It would be inedible
Hi Katharine,
Tried and tested, it is 2 cups 🙂 The recipe calls for a whole chicken (skin on) and it only simmers in the poaching liquid for 30mn.
This is the best roast chicken I’ve ever made, I will make it time and time again, I served it. With an Asian coleslaw and fried rice.