Jean would like to learn how to use lemon grass. Being a Canadian, Jean is fascinated with the stuff she finds in Asian groceries stores. The only problem is she does not how to use them. So, Tanni demonstrated a Vietnamese Chicken Chop recipe in the Gilmore Park Church Community Kitchen which uses lemon grass. Tanni got the recipe from a friend who married a Vietnamese. The marinates in this recipe can be used on chicken or pork chop.
Ingredients
- 4 pieces of chicken thighs
Marinate:
- 1 tablespoon chopped shallot
- 1 tablespoon chopped garlic
- 2 tablespoons chopped lemon grass
- 1/2 teaspoon five spice powder
- 3/4 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon rice vinegar
- 1 1/2 tablespoons fish sauce
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Instructions
Preheat oven to 425F.
 Chop the garlic, shallot and lemon grass with an electric chopper or by hand.As for the lemon grass, peel away a couple of outer layer of skin and use the inner core stem. The lemon grass is very fibrous and hard to digest. That’s why it needs to be chopped very fine. Otherwise, pound the root part of the lemon grass to release flavour and use the whole lemon grass to flavour soup or curry and remove it before serving. |
 Mix all the marinating ingredients together in a small bowl. |
 Rub the marinates on the chicken thighs. Give it a good message and let marinate in the fridge for at least 4 hours or overnight. |
 Brush the skin with vinegar in order to have crispy skin. |
 Bake in a preheated oven on a rack on top of a baking pan to catch the dripping oil. This way, the chicken will not sit on its own oil. Bake for 30 minutes or until the juice runs clear. |
 The chicken will be golden brown when done. It’s crispy on the skin and moist and flavourful. |
 You may eat the chicken with a dipping sauce made of chopped garlic, finely grated carrot, rice vinegar and sugar.
Tanni, thank you for sharing the recipe. |
Thanks for this great blog Suanne & Ben. My wife and I enjoy it a lot.. recipes and resto reviews. Would you be able to recommend the best neighborhood in Vancouver to live in for bakeries / cheap eats / grocers / butchers? We are in Toronto returning home to Vancouver but it has changed so much, I don’t know the neighborhoods anymore.
Looks so yummy =)~ drools
Thank you for the recipe. Ever since my fav Vietnamese restaurant got bought out by other owners near our area, we totally missed the lemongrass chicken and pork there. I’m going to try this out. 🙂
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