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Preparation
15 minutes
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Cooking
1 hour
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Difficulty
Easy
Grilled grilled chicken with crispy skin and tender meat seasoned just right is a dish that everyone in the family loves. Let’s get cooking with TasteVN to learn the recipe for unique and delicious lemongrass salt grilled chicken today!
Ingredients for Lemongrass Salt Grilled Chicken Serves 2
Chicken 1 whole Minced garlic 50 gr Minced lemongrass 50 gr Minced chili 4 tablespoons Vietnamese coriander 20 gr Salt 3 teaspoons Sugar 4 tablespoons MSG 1 teaspoon Chopped green onion 4 stalks Sesame oil 1 tablespoon Cooking oil 4 tablespoons
How to Choose Fresh and Delicious Chicken
For live chickens
- Choose chickens with bright red combs, shiny feathers, pinkish vents, and no unusual fluids.
- The chicken’s legs should be slim, evenly yellow, not wrinkled, and the crop should not be hard, indicating the chicken is healthy.
- When lifting the feathers, the skin should be thin and soft; gently squeeze the body of the chicken to feel firm, not mushy, with some large yellow streaks under the breast and wings. Beneath the chicken’s wings and armpits, visible meat and blood vessels indicate that the chicken is firm and not fatty.
For pre-prepared chickens
- Choose chicken meat that looks fresh, has no foul or strange odor, and the skin should not show any bruising or discoloration; avoid dark-colored chickens as they are likely to have died before preparation.
- To avoid purchasing water-injected chickens, press on the suspected areas (mainly thighs and breasts) to check; if they feel mushy, slippery, or deformed, do not buy.
- If you see yellow skin and the inner fat is white, it is certain that the chicken has been artificially colored and should not be purchased.
- If you want to choose good native chicken, select pieces with light yellow skin, thin and smooth, high elasticity, and dark yellow only in certain areas like the breast, wings, and back, with a compact, firm body and narrow breast.
- For frozen chicken sold in supermarkets, check the reputable origin and expiration date on the packaging to ensure quality.
Tools Needed
Charcoal stove, oven, skewers, trays, knife, plastic gloves, blender
How to prepare Grilled Chicken with Lemongrass and Salt
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Prepare the whole chicken
The chicken is cleaned, plucked of any remaining feathers (down feathers, small, black ones still stuck to the chicken’s skin), rub a little salt or lemon on the chicken skin to clean it and reduce the odor, then rinse with water until clean and let it drain.
Use a small, sharp knife to carefully remove the cartilage near the vent, keeping the bones of the wings and thighs.
How to clean the chicken without odor
- To prevent the chicken from smelling, you need to completely clean off all feathers, including down feathers, so the chicken is white, clean, and less smelly.
- Mix a solution of vinegar and salt in a ratio of 2 salt : 1 vinegar, then apply it all over the chicken, rubbing several times and then rinsing thoroughly with clean water.
- Rub a few slices of lemon with a little salt on the chicken meat. Crush 1 piece of ginger and a little white wine, massage it onto the chicken and let it sit for 30 minutes before cooking.
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Marinate the chicken
Marinade mixture: 50g minced garlic, 3 tablespoons minced chili, 1 tablespoon sesame oil, 3 tablespoons sugar, 2 teaspoons salt, 1 teaspoon monosodium glutamate, 4 tablespoons cooking oil. Mix the ingredients well and use your hands to evenly apply it inside and outside the chicken meat. Let the chicken marinate for about 20 – 30 minutes for the meat to absorb the seasoning.
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Grilling Chicken
Light the charcoal stove first, when the coals are evenly red, place the grill on top and start grilling.
Use a skewer along the body of the chicken. Then place the chicken on the grill, frequently turning it over while occasionally brushing with oil to prevent the chicken from burning.
Grill until the chicken turns a golden brown color.
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Make Dipping Sauce
Add 50g of minced lemongrass and 20g of giang leaves into a blender, and blend the mixture until smooth. Then transfer the mixture into a bowl.
In the bowl, add 1 tablespoon of minced chili, 1 teaspoon of salt, and 1 tablespoon of sugar, then mix all the ingredients together.
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Make Crispy Rice with Green Onions
Put the leftover rice into a plastic bag, then use a rolling pin to flatten and stick the rice together. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and place the flattened rice in the mold. Then place it in the air fryer and fry for 20 minutes.
Chop the green onions into a bowl, add 1/2 teaspoon of salt, then pour hot oil into the bowl and mix well.
See more details: How to make crispy rice with green onions using an air fryer super fast
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Final Product
The chicken has crispy skin, and the meat is seasoned just right. Dipping the chicken in lemongrass salt, you will feel the spicy aroma of lemongrass combined with a light sourness from the wild betel leaves, making the dish more unique and appealing.
Grilled chicken served with crispy scallion rice is truly unbeatable, isn’t it?
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Grilled chicken with lemongrass salt is delicious, unique, and easy to make, isn’t it? Let’s quickly whip up this enticing dish to treat your friends and family on the weekends!
