Smoke-Roasted Chicken with Honey and Chilli Glazed ala Dentist Chef

Roasted Chicken with Honey Glazed

Roasted chicken is sounds familiar to you, but not smoke-roasting. Smoke-roasting is similiar to hard smoking, but the temperature reached 121 Celcius.  Everince i’ve try to made a smoked fish, smoked lamb, smoked beef, and smoked goose, i’m tempted to try smoking some other meat. Actuallly i’ve try to smoke chicken breast several times. Today i’m try to smoke-roasting baby chicken, i just marinade the chicken without curing it. Baby chicken is very tender and moist and it must handle properly. Try to purchase baby chicken weighted not more than 500 grams since it’s still meaty and not too fatty. I’ve try to cook the baby chicken into Roasted Baby Chicken Stuffed with Ricotta Cheese and Long Pepper Rubs.

Smoke-Roasted Baby Chicken with Sambal Matah and Sweet Potato Fries

Smoke roasting or smoke baking refers to any process that has the attributes of smoking combined with either roasting or baking. This smoking method is sometimes referred to as “barbecuing”, “pit baking”, or “pit roasting”. It may be done in a smoke roaster, closed wood-fired oven or barbecue pit, any smoker that can reach above 250 °F (121 °C), or in a conventional oven by placing a pan filled with hardwood chips on the floor of the oven so the chips burned and produce a smokebath, just make sure you had a well ventillation

Carved Smoke Roasted Baby Chicken

For marinade the chicken, i use garlic, ginger, white peppercorn, and seasalt.   One of the most important step in hot smoking salmon is to make a pellicle/thin dried layer on the chicken to prevent the  fat melted and the moisture totally drained out on smoking. I choose to make this pellicle formed with putting the chicken on metal rack and set the air conditioner or fan in the higest winds as possible to expose the chicken skin to drained the surface and make a perfect pellicle layer. Don’t forget to flip out the chicken to make a pellicle all over. For glazing the chicken, i use honey, black bean and fine chilli powder.

Very small roasted baby chicken leg

looks at the the remaining marinade and how moist the smoke-roasted baby chicken

Ingredients:

Roasted Baby Chicken Recipe :

1 baby chicken, mine was 495 gr

Roasted Baby Chicken Marinade:

• 1/2 tsp salt
• 6 cloves garlic
• 2 tbsp chinese light soy sauce
• 1 tbsp shaoxing (Chinese cooking wine)
• 2 cm knob rock sugar
• 3 cm  ginger root
• 1 tsp white peppercorn
• process all ingredienst onto a fine paste

For Baby Chicken Glazing:

• 2 tbsp honey
• 1 tbsp garlic powder
• 1 tbsp oil
• 1/4 tsp szechuan peppercorn powder
• 1 tsp chili powder
• 1/2 tsp oyster sauce
• 1 tbsp rice vinegar
• salt n pepper to taste
• mix all ingredient, set aside

Instruction :

How to make a Smoke-Roasted Baby Chicken:

• Clean and pat dry the chicken all over.
• Rub and massage the marinade all over the chicken, let it marinade overnight in the fridge
• Discard the marinade from the chicken and pat dry the skin, dont discard the marinade from the cavity
• Smoke the baby chicken with high heat ( the step by step smoking  process)
• Nearly done, apply the glazing mixture in the chicken skin
• Let it dry a lil bit by exposing with a fan
• Meanwhile, preheat the oven in 250 C
• Roast the smoked baby chicken to let the glazing mixture caramelized
• Make sure you watched the chicken closely since it can easily burned
• Serve with Sambal Matah (Balinese Raw Shallot and Chillies Spicy Salsa)

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