Pandan Chicken is a Thai Style where tender chicken pieces are wrapped and cooked in pandan leaves, usually served with a dipping sauce made out of lightly flavoured soy sauce or fish sauce. Making it here in New Zealand is quite challenging as I never had seen any fresh pandan leaves and the available ones are the frozen ones that are pre-cut.
The first time I had this was in Malaysia, it was in a restaurant near my work. At first I was wondering what was that thing wrapped in leaves and a colleague told me that those are fried chicken wrapped in pandan leaves. I immediately ordered some and got hooked, first because it was a fried chicken and second is because of the pandan leaves that gives that distinct vanilla like aroma.
Pandan Chicken is a Thai Style where tender chicken pieces are wrapped and cooked in pandan leaves, usually served with a dipping sauce made out of lightly flavoured soy sauce or fish sauce. Making it here in New Zealand is quite challenging as I never had seen any fresh pandan leaves and the available ones are the frozen ones that are pre-cut. Having said that the size of the leaf from the frozen ones are only 4 to 5 inch in length making it impossible to wrap a chicken nibble so in this post we just roll it in two pieces of leaf and securing it with a skewer which gives it a similar result but different in presentation.
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Pandan Chicken is a Thai Style where tender chicken pieces are wrapped and cooked in pandan leaves, usually served with a dipping sauce made out of lightly flavoured soy sauce or fish sauce. Making it here in New Zealand is quite challenging as I never had seen any fresh pandan leaves and the available ones are the frozen ones that are pre-cut.
Ingredients
UnitsScale
Chicken
800g deboned chicken thigh cutlets, sliced into bite sized pieces
In a bowl combine together soy sauce, oyster sauce, chili powder and garlic.
Add the chicken, give it a good mix to coat it evenly then set it aside for 15 minutes.
Get two pieces of pandan leaf then wrap chicken around, place in a skewer securing the pandan leaves. Place two wrapped chicken in one skewer. Do it with the remaining chicken.
Prepare a wok, add oil and place in stove top with high heat. Once oil is hot enough fry chicken pieces for 4 minutes on each side or until cooked. Place cooked chicken in a serving platter.
In a small bowl combine sauce ingredients, mix well then serve with pandan chicken.
Hi Raymund, these little chicken morsels look utterly delcious. The Pandan wrapping is so inspired and I’m going to bust out this delcious recipe over the new year period. My Bbq is gonna get fired up!
Ahhhhh!!!! Pandan chicken! Very popular here but the taste varies from place to place. I do know of one very good one in town – would have that sometimes, extra-special and very well-marinated, the meat, with lemon grass, tumeric and all…very very nice.
Oh, yes love the look of this Raymund – can taste the pandan!
★★★★★
Hi Raymund, these little chicken morsels look utterly delcious. The Pandan wrapping is so inspired and I’m going to bust out this delcious recipe over the new year period. My Bbq is gonna get fired up!
I’ve never heard of pandan leaves, but the aroma certainly sounds appetizing!
Ahhhhh!!!! Pandan chicken! Very popular here but the taste varies from place to place. I do know of one very good one in town – would have that sometimes, extra-special and very well-marinated, the meat, with lemon grass, tumeric and all…very very nice.
★★★★★