Best Peking Style Chicken Recipes

PEKING-STYLE CHICKEN

Steps:

• 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. 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.
• Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. 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.
• 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. 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. Serve with the remaining warmed marinade, some plain rice and bok choi or spinach stirfried with a little garlic and oyster sauce.

PEKING STYLE CHICKEN

Steps:

• In a small bowl, mix together the mustard, sugar, soy sauce, sesame oil, chili peppers (if using) and vinegar. Blend thoroughly and set aside.
• Coat chicken pieces in cornstarch. Dip into beaten egg whites.
• Saute the chicken in hot oil until crispy and brown.
• Drain oil from the pan and add sauce.
• Cook for 5 minutes over low heat.

PEKING-STYLE CHICKEN WRAPS

Steps:

• Preheat broiler and lightly oil rack of a broiler pan.
• Stack tortillas and wrap in foil. Stir together hoisin, soy, honey, ginger, vinegar, garlic, and cayenne in a 1- to 1 1/2-quart saucepan.
• Toss chicken with 3 tablespoons sauce in a large bowl to coat, then broil 2 to 3 inches from heat, without turning, rotating pan halfway through broiling, until cooked through and deep golden, about 10 minutes. Transfer to a cutting board and let stand, uncovered, 5 minutes.
• While chicken is broiling, put tortillas on bottom rack of oven to warm.
• Boil sauce until slightly thickened, about 2 minutes, then add plum and simmer, stirring, 2 minutes.
• Cut chicken crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick slices.
• To eat, wrap up chicken, plum sauce, and scallions in tortillas.

CHICKEN-PEKING DUCK STYLE

Steps:

• Boil 4 cups of water and place chicken breasts in the boiling water to cook until they are well done.
• Combine cinnamon, nutmeg, powdered ginger, salt, and pepper with 1 tablespoon of soy sauce. Stir together in a bowl. Place the cooked chicken breasts on a platter, and then spread the mixture on both sides of the chicken. Put the chicken on a baking dish and put it inside the oven.
• Bake the chicken in the oven at 450 degrees for 15 minutes.
• Combine 2 tablespoons of honey with 1 teaspoon of soy sauce. Mix together well. Then spread this mixture on the top of the chicken breasts and then bake the chicken for another 15 minutes at 450 degrees. Then it should be done.
• Serve the chicken on top of a bed of cooked white rice, which is optional.

PEKING STYLE CHICKEN

Steps:

• Trim chicken fillets of all fat and sinew.
• Place hoisin, soy, vinegar, garlic and ginger in large bowl and stir.
• Add chicken and marinate for 20 minutes.
• Remove chicken from marinade, reserving the marinade.
• Cook chicken on hot bbq or under a hot grill 4 minutes each side. Remove and stand 5 minutes.
• Cut tortillas in half, wrap in foil andwarm in the oven.
• Place remaining marinade in a small suacepan and heat until mixture boils. Pour the hot mixture into a serving bowl.
• Slice chicken into strips (I sometimes pre-slice my chicken and grill it that way to save this step - but cook the chicken for less time).
• Allow your guests to place chicken strips with shallots, cucumber and sauce in the warmed tortilla and enjoy!