Marmite Chicken

This is from Marmite Singapore, a wonderful sounding chicken dish.  Try it and let us know how you got on –

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Marmite Chicken

Marmite Chicken

INGREDIENTS

  • 400g chicken (mid wing part), cleaned
  • 50g whole garlic, peeled & quickly fried
  • 50g whole shallot, peeled & quickly fried
  • 30g pickled chili or red chili
  • 20g spring onion, cut short
  • 40ml vegetable oil
  • SEASONING
  • ½ tbsp Marmite
  • 1 tbsp hot bean sauce (dou ban jiang)
  • ½ tsp sugar
  • ½ tbsp dark soy sauce
  • ½ tsp sesame oil
  • 60ml water
  • 1-2 tsp cornstarch solution (optional)

METHOD

  1. Mix all seasoning ingredients together and set it aside.
  2. Pre-sear the chicken wings for a few minutes (half-cook).
  3. Heat up the clay pot. Add oil, half-cooked chicken wings, seasoning sauce mixture and stir until the seasoning reduces (about 5 minutes).
  4. Add garlic, shallot, pickled chili and stir (you may choose to thicken the gravy with cornstarch solution in this step).
  5. Add spring onion. And it’s done!
  6. Tip: Cornstarch solution ratio is 1 : 1 (1 part of water + 1 part of corn flour).