Five Spice Apple Braised Whole Chicken
Five Spice Apple Braised Whole Chicken (inspired by Fit Daffy’s Chinese Poached Chicken recipe)
Ingredients:
1 whole chicken -skinned and trimmed excess fat as much as possible without tearing the meat
1 Tbsp avocado oil or coconut oil (or any high heat cooking oil of your choice – just don’t use vegetable/seed oils!)
3 Tbsp coconut aminos
1 Tbsp Red Boat Fish sauce
2 star anises
1 tennis ball size organic cameo apple
1 whole garlic clove, peeled
2″ ginger knob – peeled and cut int chunks
2 Tbsp Red Wine Vinegar or any of your favorite vinegar or lemon juice
2 heaping tsp salt
1 tsp five spice powder
1 tsp white pepper powder
Directions:
1. Rub the whole chicken with salt and white pepper powder, including the cavity. Take a kitchen string and tie the legs together.
2. Wrap the chicken with plastic food wrap (or place it in a large plastic bag). I love the idea of wrapping it with plastic wrap though. Let it marinate for about 2 hours or overnight.
3. Since I don’t have a slow cooker, I planned on baking this whole chicken in my oven (covered). However, as usual, when cooking a bone-in chicken, I steamed it first for about 15 minutes to get it at least half cooked. If you want to bake this straight in the oven skip to step 4.
4. Mix the marinate (coconut aminos, five spice powder, star anise, vinegar, fish sauce, and avocado oil) in one small bowl.
5. Cut the apple into chunks and place them inside the cavity along with some garlic cloves and ginger and 1 star anise. Do not try to overstuff this.
6. Place the stuffed chicken with breast side down on your baking dish. Place the rest of the cut up ingredients around the chicken.
7. Pre-heat the oven to 400°F, and pour the marinate over the chicken.
8. Cover the dish with a foil, bake for about an hour or until the juice comes out clear when pierced.
Note: If you bake this chicken from raw, I suggest to bring it to a room temperature prior baking or bake it longer than 1 hour.
9. Remove the cover, and let the chicken cools down a bit
10. Place the chicken on another dish, discard the apples, garlic, ginger and star anise, and place the gravy on another dish.
Enjoy the chicken with the gravy!
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Amazing marinade for the chicken. My advice: if you can make the marinade a day ahead of time, the flavors will be even more amazing the next day. I heated it up in the microwave for a few seconds and it thickened up almost like a syrup. That was perfect because it really stuck on the chicken when I poured it over the top. I also put carrots and onion wedges in the bottom of the roasting pan with the apples and stirred them several times during baking. Everything was phenomenal! The veggies on the bottom are so tasty because they soak up the dripped marinade and the drippings. Served it with stir fry bok choy salad. Absolutely amazing-will be making again!
Sounds very yummy! I’d definitely give it a try next time. Thanks for sharing 😀
Mmmmmmm, this looks so wonderful! I’ve been a little reluctant with using poultry on the bone (whole chicken, chricken drumsticks) because the parts are so big, and I really detest the skin, but with skinning it, I think this will totally be my kind of dish. 😀 I also love five-spice and apples. 🙂
Hi this looks great and I am going to try it. If I used a slow cooker, how long would you suggest cooking it?
Awesome!!! That looks so good! The apple doesn’t make the dish overly sweet? Weird how my fruity tastebuds are more sensitive to the sugar post-Whole30… ;D
Seriously… maybe one of these days I’m just going to BUY you a slow cooker! LOL! ;D