Plum Sauce Chicken

You thought you had tried all of the marinating and basting sauces you can possibly try on your chicken, well think again because I am pretty much sure a lot of you out there haven’t tried plum sauce yet, I too had just recently learned about this sauce. If that statement is correct then you are lucky because you can try it out now using this recipe, a sweet, savoury, spicy with a bit of kick from the chillies, this chicken dish is something to die for. The plums give it a really nice fruity sweet flavour while helping the chicken in tenderizing it giving it a nice all-around texture. Like honey soy chicken this dish is a crowd please so make sure when you serve it to your guest add to your ingredients list lots of paper towels as it can really get messy.

Plum Sauce Chicken

 

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Prep time

20 mins

Cook time

35 mins

Total time

55 mins

 

Serves: 3-4

Ingredients

Chicken

• 10 pcs chicken drumsticks
• toasted sesame seeds
• spring onions, sliced
• red chillies, sliced

Sauce

• 3 pcs plums, skins and stones removed
• ⅓ cup muscovado sugar
• 4 tbsp soy sauce
• 3 tbsp Hoisin Sauce
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• ½ tsp ginger, minced
• ½ tsp Chinese Five Spice Powder
• ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper
• ½ tsp cayenne pepper
• 3 tbsp oil

Instructions

1. Using a fork pork your chicken drumsticks all-over.
2. In food processor or blender combine all sauce ingredients then puree to have a smooth sauce. Place in a zip lock bag together with chicken drumsticks, let it marinate for 3 hours.
3. Remove chicken from the refrigerator one hour before cooking, reserve the marinating liquid from the zip lock bag.
4. Place chicken in a wire rack on top of a foil lined baking tray then bake in a 180C preheated oven for 30-35 minutes until cooked occasionally basting every 10 minutes with the leftover sauce from the zip lock bag and drippings.
5. Remove from oven serve garnished with toasted sesame seeds, spring onions and chillies.

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