Prawn Paste Chicken + Recipe

Pre-mixed prawn paste chicken sauce in bottle is hard to find although the pre-packed powder is easily available. The later is milder in flavours so I tried to concoct my own. The comment on this dish was: it tasted pretty close to those we had ordered at eateries. Still I want to adjust the recipe below. I will reduce "lam yee" to a quarter piece and increase prawn paste to 2 tablespoons.

 

My version:

Recipe:

Prawn Paste Chicken

 

Ingredients:

1 kg drumsticks – deboned

1 pc “lam yee”

½ pc “fu yee”

1 tbsp 5-spice powder

1 tbsp oyster sauce

1 tbsp prawn paste [roasted blachan]

½ an egg white

½ tbsp soya sauce

1 tsp sugar

½ tsp pepper

1 ½ tbsp wine

Ajinomoto to taste

¾ tbsp ground red yeast rice

1 tbsp corn flour

 

Method:

1. Marinate chicken with all the above ingredients and set aside for 1 hour.

2. Fried chicken, skin side down first, till cooked.

 

Red yeast rice is also known as red fermented rice or hong qu mi / 红曲米in Chinese. If you want to know more about this ingredient, click this and here's lam yee or red beancurds.

Done