Preparation
1 hour
Difficulty
Easy
Grilled chicken is a very appealing and familiar dish in gatherings with friends or family reunions. Today, TasteVN will introduce you to the delicious and attractive recipe for grilled chicken with basil leaves. Get cooking right away to try it out!
Ingredients for Grilled Chicken with Basil Leaves Serves 4
Chicken 1.5 kg Fresh basil leaves 50 gr Star anise 1/2 piece Onion 1/2 piece Thyme leaves 1/2 teaspoon Lemon 1/2 fruit Chicken egg 1 piece Ginger 1 piece Salt/pepper a little
How to choose fresh ingredients
How to choose good chicken
- Choose chicken that has a pink-red color, no unpleasant smells, and the skin should not have bruises or blood clots. Avoid choosing dark-skinned chickens as they are those that died before being slaughtered.
- To select good native chickens, choose those with light yellow skin, thin and smooth, high elasticity, and dark yellow spots in some areas like the breast, wings, back, with a compact and firm body, and narrow breast.
- Use your hand to press on the (thigh, breast) area to check if the chicken has been injected with water; if it feels mushy, slippery, or deformed, do not buy it.
- For frozen chicken in supermarkets, check the reputable origin and expiration date on the packaging to ensure quality.
How to choose good basil leaves
- Choose leaves that are a beautiful green color, small, pointed leaves, and stems that are purple with a distinctive fragrance.
- Do not choose leaves that are wilted or no longer have a fragrant smell.
How to choose star anise (fennel bulb) and tarragon leaves
- Choose small star anise bulbs that are white and not yellowing, with green stems that are not fading, and have a light fragrance. You can buy star anise at large supermarkets.
- Tarragon leaves are smooth, oval-shaped, with a beautiful green color and a very aromatic smell. There are two types of tarragon available in the market: fresh and dried. For this dish, you should choose the dried type that has been crushed so that when roasting the chicken, the tarragon aroma will spread more.
Tools needed
How to prepare Grilled Chicken with Bay Leaves
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Prepare the chicken
You buy pre-prepared chicken from the market. To clean the chicken and eliminate any odor, soak the chicken in diluted salt water for 15 minutes. Then just rinse the chicken several times with clean water.
How to reduce the odor of chicken:
- After plucking the chicken feathers, remove the oil gland from the tail, and use a mixture of salt and vinegar to wash the chicken. Then soak the chicken in water for 20 minutes.
- You can also clean it by using a little salt and ginger to gently rub the chicken skin, then rinse several times with clean water to eliminate the fishy smell.
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Prepare the ingredients
Wash the star anise thoroughly to remove any dirt and dust. Cut off all the stems, taking 1/2 of the star anise and cutting it vertically.
Take 1/2 a lemon, and 1/2 an onion and cut them into small pieces vertically. Squeeze the juice from the remaining 1/2 lemon and grate the zest.
Remove any damaged bay leaves, then wash them clean.
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Stuff the ingredients into the chicken
Take the whole star anise, lemon, and onion and stuff them into the chicken’s abdomen. Add 1/2 teaspoon of dried thyme evenly into the abdomen and stuff all the prepared basil leaves inside.
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Prepare the chicken for grilling
Use a brush to apply a layer of egg yolk around the chicken and add a little pepper on the surface of the chicken.
Add 1 teaspoon of salt, a little finely grated lemon zest into a bowl and mix well. Sprinkle the mixture over the chicken and gently rub it in to absorb into the chicken.
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Grilled Chicken
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes to stabilize the temperature.
Place the chicken in the oven at 180 degrees Celsius with both top and bottom heat for 60 minutes until the chicken skin is golden and crispy, then take the chicken out; your grilled chicken with bay leaves is ready.
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Final Product
The grilled chicken with bay leaves has beautifully golden skin, and the meat inside is tender, absorbing delicious spices combined with the sourness of lemon and the aroma of ginger. All of this creates a tasty and appealing grilled chicken dish.
Successful Implementation Tips
- When grilling, you must pay attention not to let the fire get too high, causing the chicken to burn.
- After cooking, you should wait a while for the heat to dissipate before taking it out of the tray.
- Additionally, if the dish is cooked before the set time, you can manually turn off the pot by adjusting the timer knob to 0.
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Hope from the recipe for grilled basil chicken with an extremely simple method that can be easily done at home, you will quickly join TasteVN to make this delicious dish! Wish you success!
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