Whole chicken dry steamed in sea salt recipe (ga nuong lu)

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Created by Luke Nguyen

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Cuisine: Vietnamese

Ingredients

1 whole chicken (1.5 kg), cut into quarters
1 tsp five spice powder
1 tbsp annatto oil
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp Shaoxing cooking wine
2 tbsp fish sauce
2 tbsp finely diced garlic
1 cup rock salt
1 kg fresh sugar cane, chopped into 2cm x 10cm pieces
2 fresh baguettes

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Preparation

In a large mixing bowl, combine 5 spice powder, annatto oil, honey, cooking wine, fish sauce and garlic. Mix well then coat the chicken and marinate for 2 hours or overnight for a better result.

In a large clay pot, add the rock salt and lay the fresh sugar cane on top. Then place the chicken on top of the sugar cane, cover with a lid and cook on medium heat for 40 minutes or when the rock salt ceases to pop.

Transfer the chicken to a plate and serve with crisp baguette.

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Comments (3)

13 Dec 2009 09:49 AEST

I have a small clay pot which was insufficient. So decided to try a medium size wok with a lid. Got a free range fresh chicken complete with head and feet to impress my VN wife. Apparently it does. Used the ingredience as per the video but also added a ts of Annato powder to give it some colour. Didn't have any guava leaves so i just stuck with lime. Video said 15 minutes medium heat, recipe said 40 mins, I did 30. Will try 20 next time. Clean-up, nothing stuck, huge relief. Magnificant flavour

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11 Dec 2009 09:06 AEST

Scott

Noosa

Ga nuong lu

The ingredients listed above are totally different to what Luke used in his program.

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10 Dec 2009 08:22 AEST

John

Where is the chilli in this recipe - there was heaps in the actual program for this recipe?!

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