Recipe: Perfect Southern Thai-style Roast Chicken

Southern Thai-style Roast Chicken. You can also spatchcock (aka butterfly) your chicken, or remove the backbone and flatten it out before roasting on a flat rack in a roasting To give the chicken a Thai flair, try a paste of ginger, lemon grass, green chilies, cilantro, and lime juice. Take the chicken out of the oven and remove the foil. Use a brush to baste the chicken with the cooking juices.

Roast chicken infused with Thai herbs. Add tasty Thai flavours to your holiday table without it clashing with other traditional Western-style side dishes! Flavoured with a simple, classic Thai marinade, then roasted on a bed of Thai herbs, this chicken is infused with subtle Thai aromas and the gravy is just. You can cook Southern Thai-style Roast Chicken using 17 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Southern Thai-style Roast Chicken

1. You need 1 kilogram of (about 2.2 pounds) chicken pieces (skin-on breasts, wings, drumsticks etc.).
2. Prepare 1 tablespoon of white pepper.
3. It's 1/2 teaspoon of black pepper.
4. You need 1 teaspoon of coriander seeds.
5. You need 3 of coriander roots.
6. You need 1 teaspoon of cumin.
7. Prepare 8 of shallots.
8. You need 6 cloves of garlic.
9. Prepare 1 1/2 tablespoon of oyster sauce.
10. You need 1 1/2 tablespoon of soy sauce.
11. It's 1 tablespoon of brown or granulated sugar.
12. It's 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
13. You need 1/4 cup of all-purpose flour (optional).
14. You need 2 tablespoon of limewater (optional).
15. You need of Fried shallots (to serve).
16. You need of Steamed glutinous rice (to serve).
17. It's of Sweet chili sauce (to serve).

A simple Thai-style roast chicken recipe for you to cook a great meal for family or friends. Lift the skin from the neck end of the chicken and push your hand in between the skin and the meat, separating them as far over the chicken and down into the legs as you can. As the chicken — though it could be ground pork, sliced beef or chicken, or mushrooms — cooks, its fat renders and the fired-up curry paste adheres. Try this Thai-style twist on a classic roast chicken.

Southern Thai-style Roast Chicken step by step

1. Clean the chicken pieces under running water, prick them all over with a fork so the marinade could better seep in and leave to dry while you make the marinade..
2. Using a mortar and pestle or a food processor, grind together white and black pepper, coriander seeds and roots, cumin, garlic and shallots..
3. Transfer the spice and herb mixture to a large bowl in which the chicken will be marinated, add oyster and soy sauce, salt and sugar and stir them together with a spoon to form a thick paste..
4. Add the chicken pieces and coat them evenly with the marinade. Cover with plastic wrap and leave to marinade in the refrigerator for 3 hours to overnight..
5. Preheat oven to 225°C(437°F).
6. For extra crispy chicken skin, add the all-purpose flour and limewater to the chicken and toss to coat before baking. You can skip this step..
7. Transfer the chicken to the lightly-oiled baking sheet and bake until done, 20-30 minutes..
8. In the meantime you could make the fried shallots by slicing raw shallots and tossing them with some sugar, salt, ground white pepper and coriander seeds and all-purpose flour. Deep fry them in hot oil until golden-brown or put on a baking sheet and bake along with the chicken, toss and turn occasionally so they cook evenly..
9. Serve the chicken over sticky rice, topped with fried shallots and with sweet chili sauce on the side..

Any leftovers will make great sandwiches! Carefully push some of the paste between the skin and flesh of the chicken breasts, making sure it is evenly distributed. Score the chicken thighs twice with a sharp knife right down to the bone. This is really flavorful and juicy roast chicken. Even my husband, who is growing tired of chicken, picks the bird clean when I make this one.