Description
Chicken Waray is a Filipino grilled chicken dish marinated in citrus, coconut milk, soy sauce, fish sauce alongside aromatics like lemongrass and shallots
Ingredients
Scale
Chicken
- 4 pcs whole chicken leg and thigh portions
Marinade
- 1/2 cup coconut milk
- juice from 2 lemons
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp fish sauce
- 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 1 stalk lemongrass
- 2 pcs medium shallots
- 6 cloves garlic
- freshly ground black pepper
- 3 tbsp oil
Instructions
- In a food processor combine all marinade ingredients apart from the oil then process until it resembles a rough paste.
- Place chicken and marinating paste in a heavy-duty zip lock, mix well to evenly distribute sauce and let it marinate in the refrigerator overnight.
- Remove chicken from the refrigerator and let it sit in room temperature for an hour prior to cooking. Remove chicken from the bag, set aside leftover marinade in a bowl. Place chicken in a wire rack over a baking tray.
- Put your oven in grill setting, pre-heat to 180C then cook for 50-60 minutes or until chicken pieces are thoroughly cooked. During the cooking process turn the chicken to the other side and baste it with the marinade every 10 minutes.
- Remove from oven then serve.