Monday, March 30, 2009

The Chicken And The Egg


This was a fun, inexpensive Sunday dinner. These are half chickens which were partially grilled and smoked on the Big Green Egg, then finished under the broiler. These guys were marinated for 48 hours in a fiery paste that I made in the Vita-Prep. It was garlic, ginger, sambal, tom-yum paste and water... A long marination like that, followed by some time in a smoky GREEN EGG resulted in extremely flavorful meat. The red sauce you see on the plate was pretty much a mixture of garlic, sriracha, fish sauce, lime juice, water and sugar. (also made in the vita-prep). The chicken is rested on a bed of grilled green onions and topped with a runny egg yoke. The egg yoke happens to be topped with sweet fish roe which was lightly cured in soy sauce.
Cilantro and scallion garnish the whole bird.

Smoky, Spicy, Tangy, Salty, Sweet, Creamy, Charred, Juicy, Aromatic.

mmm....

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