Recipe: Delicious Roasted Lemongrass Chicken

Roasted Lemongrass Chicken.

You can have Roasted Lemongrass Chicken using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Roasted Lemongrass Chicken

1. It's 1 kg of (about 2 lbs) chicken thigh and drumstick.
2. It's 2 of lemongrass (white part), bruised.
3. Prepare 4 of kaffir lime leaves.
4. You need 2 of bay leaves.
5. Prepare 4 of cloves.
6. You need 1/2 teaspoon of ground nutmeg.
7. Prepare 1 tbsp of salt.
8. You need 2 tsp of coconut/brown sugar.
9. Prepare 100 ml of water.
10. Prepare 1/2 tsp of ground white/black pepper.
11. It's of Grind the following into spice paste :.
12. Prepare 10 of shallots.
13. You need 6 of garlic cloves.
14. It's 5 of red/fresno pepper, seeded.
15. It's 2 cm of ginger.
16. Prepare 1 cm of galangal (in USA only dried one available).
17. Prepare 2 cm of kaempferia galanga (in USA only dried one available).
18. Prepare 15 of candle nuts.
19. You need 1 tsp of shrimp paste.

Roasted Lemongrass Chicken step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350° F..
2. Heat about 3 tablespoons of oil. Sauté spice paste, lemon grass, lime leaves, bay leaves, cloves and nutmeg until they get darker color and cooked. Add chicken, water, salt, sugar and pepper. Stir well. Turn the heat off..
3. Prepare a baking dish, lined with aluminum foil. Put the chicken (make sure the skin is facing up) and the spice into the aluminum foil. Wrap tight..
4. Put the baking dish into the oven. Bake for an hour..
5. Take the baking dish out, open the aluminum foil wrap. Taste the sauce, add salt/sugar if necessary, do not forget to stir evenly if there is addition of salt/sugar. Put the baking dish back into the oven. Bake for another 15-20 minutes (until the chicken/sauce surface looks roasted)..