Peking-style chicken

Name: Peking-style chicken
Prep time: 1 h 30 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 orange; 5 Tbsps soy sauce; 3 Tbsps dry sherry; 1 teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder; 4 garlic cloves; 1 thumb-sized fresh root ginger; 2 kgs whole chicken; 2 Tbsps honey

The recipe Peking-style chicken can be made in around 1 hour and 30 minutes. This recipe serves 6. This main course has 311 calories, 24g of protein, and 18g of fat per serving. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free and dairy free diet. This recipe from BBC Good Food requires garlic cloves, thumb-sized piece root ginger, sherry, and honey. If you like this recipe, take a look at these similar recipes: Peking-Style Chicken Wraps, Peking-style noodles, and Chinese Peking (Beijing Style) Ribs.

Instructions

Pare the zest from the orange in thick strips then mix with the soy sauce, sherry and fivespice powder in a large food bag. Bash the garlic cloves and ginger with the back of a knife to bruise them, then add to the bag and give everything a good mix.

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Whole Garlic Cloves

Soy Sauce

Ginger

Orange

Sherry

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Knife

Put the chicken in the bag, rub the marinade all over the flesh then leave to marinate in the fridge for at least 3 hrs, overnight ideally.

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Dry Seasoning Rub

Whole Chicken

Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas

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Oven

Remove the chicken from the marinade (keep it for later). Halve the orange and put both halves inside the cavity along with the bashed ginger and garlic from the marinade. With the chicken sitting on a rack in the sink, pour a kettleful of boiling water over it. Pat completely dry with kitchen paper. Set the chicken on its wire rack over a roasting tray and roast for 50 mins per kg or until the juices run clear when the thigh is pierced with a skewer.

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Marinade

Whole Chicken

Garlic

Ginger

Orange

Water

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Wire Rack

Skewers

Strain the marinade into a pan along with the honey. Bring up to the boil then simmer for a couple of mins. Just before serving, turn the oven up as high as it will go.

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Marinade

Honey

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Oven

Frying Pan

Brush some of the marinade all over the chicken. Return to the oven and cook until the chicken is crisp and browned. This will only take a couple of mins. Leave to rest, uncovered, for 5 mins.

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Marinade

Whole Chicken

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Oven

Serve with the remaining warmed marinade, some plain rice and bok choi or spinach stirfried with a little garlic and oyster sauce.

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Oyster Sauce