Asian Style Orange Chicken Roasted Under A Brick Food

ROAST CHICKEN RECIPE - CHINESE STYLE

Steps:

• Slaughter the chicken. Dress, eviscerate, and rinse. Pat dry and keep it vertical to drain off the water in the cavity. Let it stands for two hours.
• Carefully separate skin from breast meat by inserting the fingers or a small knife in between the skin and the breasts.
• Combine the salt, honey, light soy sauce and applied to the entire surface of the chicken.
• Apply the salt and Szechuan peppercorn mixture to the cavity of the chicken.
• Refrigerate the chicken in an upright position. Leave it uncovered for at least 12 hours or up to 24 hours until the surface is completely dry.
• Apply additional salt plus some baking powder to the surface. Hang the chicken upright and allow the chicken to drip dry for an hour.
• Truss the chicken.
• Place the chicken on an oven rack. Rub some oil on the surface. Roast in the preheated oven at 220 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes.
• Hold the chicken carefully to drain off any juice on the skin and inside the cavity.
• Reduce the heat to 160 degrees Celsius for another one and a half hours.
• Cut the chicken into pieces and served with Szechuan peppercorn salt 椒盐.

ASIAN-STYLE ORANGE CHICKEN ROASTED UNDER A BRICK

Steps:

• Place a large resealable plastic bag in a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. Using a vegetable peeler, peel strips of zest from 1 orange and the lime; transfer zest to bag.
• Juice zested orange and lime into bag. Add scallions, garlic, soy sauce, ponzu, and mirin. Seal; shake to mix marinade.
• Using poultry shears, cut along sides of chicken backbone; remove. Add chicken to bag; seal. Refrigerate, turning occasionally, at least 2 hours or up to 12.
• Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Heat a 12-inch cast-iron skillet or a roasting pan 10 minutes. Remove chicken from marinade; discard marinade. Brush chicken breast with vegetable oil. Flatten chicken, and place it, breast side down, in skillet. Roast chicken about 40 minutes.
• Remove skillet from oven. Pour a small amount of water into skillet; swirl to help loosen skin from bottom, if needed. Turn chicken over. Baste with pan juices; roast until an instant-read thermometer inserted into thickest part of thigh registers 165 degrees, juices run clear, and skin is crisp, about 5-10 minutes more.
• Let chicken stand 10 minutes. Just before carving chicken, squeeze juice from remaining orange over it. Carve chicken into at least 6 pieces, cut breasts in half.

SPATCHCOCKED CRISPY HAPPY CHICKEN WITH RICH ORANGE SAUCE

Steps:

• Chicken:.
• Mix salt, pepper, garlic, chili powder, thyme, fennel and cumin.
• Rub chicken under skin and all over the chicken with all of the spice mixture; cover and marinade in refrigerator for 4-24 hours.
• Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
• Heat heavy large cast iron pan over medium high heat, add oil, placing chicken skin side down immediately place a very heavy pan or foil covered bricks on chicken and cook (without moving the chicken) until the skin is a golden brown (check with a tongs) till very crisp about 15 minutes.
• Orange Sauce:.
• Meanwhile melt butter in a medium hot pan; add and saute onions for 3 minutes add garlic, ginger, brown sugar, water, orange juice and zest, lemon juice, rice vinegar, and soy sauce; bring to a boil simmer for 5 minutes.
• Mix together cornstarch and 2 tablespoons cold water or Grand Mariner making a slurry; add the slurry to the sauce whisking all the time to keep the sauce smooth; reduce heat to medium low; and simmer, about 5 minutes.
• Remove the bricks and turn chicken skin side up and finish roasting for 20-25 minutes. Until a thermometer inserted in the thigh registers 160-165 degrees when juices run completely clear, and the skin should be a gorgeous golden-brown, and exceedingly crispy.
• Remove chicken and let rest on a cutting board.
• De fat the pan drippings.
• Add the Orange Sauce to the pan juices. Strain the sauce.
• Pour sauce into a gravy boat drizzle some on a platter and place the chicken on the sauce with crispy crust up.
• Serving immediately with additional sauce and Longevity noodles or rice.