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Grilled Pandan Chicken

July 24th, 2007 by waterlily

I made these on skewers for our BBQ party over the weekend and it’s really yummy! Here’s sharing with you my modified recipe – I used store-bought pandan leaves because my plant is still a little baby! Do let me know how this turns out!

Ingredients
2 chicken breast – skinned and cut into 2 inch chunks
Pandan leaves, for wrapping chicken (two leaves for each piece of chicken)
Toothpicks or skewers (pre-soaked to avoid sticking) to secure chicken pouches

Marinade
1 tsp salt
½ tbsp sugar
1 tsp tumeric powder
1 tbsp lemongrass paste (if stalks not available)
a few curry leaves (if available)
1 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp soy sauce
50 ml coconut milk

Pound together
5 shallots
3-4 cloves of garlic
3 slices ginger / 2 slices galangal
6 red dried chilies

Method
1. Mix the pounded ingredients together with the marinade ingredients
2. Pour this mixture over the chicken, and marinade in fridge overnight or at least 4 hours.
3. Wrap chicken pieces in pandan leaves, secure with toothpicks or skewers. Grill over the barbecue.

Tips:
To wrap chicken, roll one piece of chicken along one pandan leave, and use another leave to roll up in the perpendicular direction to cover all sides. The pouches do not need to be fully covered, some “holes” revealing the meat would actually add some yummy “burn” and crunch.
For easier wrapping, soften the pandan leaves in warm water (don’t cook it!)

After wrapping the chicken in pandan leave pouches, I let my batch sit for another hour in the fridge to take in the pandan flavor before grilling.

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  • Lynette

    Aisey, very jealous you have fresh pandan lah. We need to have some sent over. DH is starting to get into hydroponics… I wonder if pandan will do OK with hydroponic method?

  • waterlily

    Lyn, the frozen pandan leaves can be used too, just have to blanch them in the warm water with a little oil. Can oso! Don’t know about hydrophonic…I’m thinking will that affect the strength of the aroma?

  • Lynette

    Last time we purchased some frozen pandan, I’m not impressed – not as fragrant one lah.

  • Deborah

    Aiyo……we don’t get pandan leaves (not even frozen ones) over here. But I did see some frozen banana leaves in the small oriental store. You think that might work instead? I know it won’t smell the same but I guess it will serve its purpose.

  • waterlily

    If you ask me, whatever you can find at where you live. I believe in improvising lah. I like to use banana leaves on the grill a lot esp. for the seafood and yum yum!!! Try it Deborah and tell me how it turns out. K?

  • RitaHG

    Frozen pandan leaves in Seattle is $12 for 6. Wonder if I can re-cycle.

  • Lynette

    Rita/Deborah, you can buy frozen pandan online! We don’t have any either, buy online. We used to have a link on CHL to buy it I can’t find it. But a bit of Google work, sure you will find one.

  • Deborah

    Thanks Lyn, I will check on Google.

  • RitaHG

    Lyn … I googled and found a store, guess where – UK! I am going to dig deep and get those from UW and use sparingly.

  • waterlily

    Really too bad they don’t allow us to put any leaves/plants in the mail for you guys (I heard about someone who “cheated” and got in trouble). The frozen pandan leaves here are sold for about $1.29 for one package (about say 3-4 bunches total). About the same price for banana leaves (precut in squares already!) I’ve never bought the banana leaves from the store since I’ve always had access to the fresh ones from our own yard up until recently. So spoilt lah!