Awesome Thai Grilled Chicken (Gai Yang) Recipe!

fish sauce

🥗Healthier: soy sauce

💰Cheaper: salt + vinegar

Soy sauce is lower in calories and easier to find.

coconut milk

🥗Healthier: almond milk

💰Cheaper: milk + coconut extract

Almond milk reduces calories while adding a hint of coconut flavor.

brown sugar

🥗Healthier: honey

💰Cheaper: white sugar

Honey adds natural sweetness with potential health benefits.

turmeric

🥗Healthier: ginger

💰Cheaper: curry powder

Ginger offers a similar warm flavor with health benefits.

Roughly chop 3-4 large cloves of garlic.

Take the ends off 3 stalks of lemongrass and bash them.

Finely chop the lemongrass and add it to the garlic in the pestle and mortar.

Finely chop the stalks of a good bunch of coriander and add them to the mixture.

Add a good few black peppercorns to the pestle and mortar.

Pound the mixture into a deep green paste.

Add 3-4 tablespoons of light soy sauce to the paste.

Add 2 tablespoons of palm sugar to the paste.

Add 2 tablespoons of tamarind to the paste.

Add 1 tablespoon of fish sauce to the paste.

Add 2 tablespoons of kecap manis to the paste.

Add a little hot water to help melt the palm sugar and mix everything together until smooth.

Pour the marinade over the chicken leg side joints and massage it in.

If time allows, cover and marinate in the fridge for at least 1 hour or overnight.

Preheat the griddle and drizzle some oil over it.

Place the marinated chicken leg joints onto the griddle.

Cook until charred on one side, then turn over to char the other side.

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius.

Transfer the chicken to the oven and bake for about 20 minutes.

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