Smoked Chicken

Have you ever experience brain freeze when you can stared at the chicken and do not know what or how to prepare it? I do, I will be staring at it and the mind goes blank.  But when your mind has thawed :p you would think should I roast it, deep fried with Kentucky flour or stir fry with ginger and spring onions or cook a stew with it or curry ?  Then I took out my iPod and start to googled what to do with the chicken in hand. Many chicken recipes will pop up on your screen....still don't know what to do with it . Sat down and watch a cooking show and tada....it was showing how to do smoked duck......LOL! inspiration just comes in and yea ...smoked chicken....simple and it turned out yummilicious....I shot up from the sofa and ran to the kitchen. Marinated the chicken with Chinese five spice powder and sea salt for 30 minutes ( better if half a day at least )  I added a bit of ground black pepper and pan seared the chicken on both sides till 3/4 cooked.  Then smoked it for another 20 minutes in a wok.....Wow ....it tasted so good that this simple recipe had me eating it with my hand and licking my fingers clean :)   Inspiration came just watching the idiot box...should be seated more often in front of the box so that I can think out of the box :p

finger licking good piece of smoked meat :) 

cleaver has to be sharp to give a clean cut :)

Smoked Chicken 


Half a chicken -wash , drain and leave skin on

1/2 tbsp of chinese five spice powder
1 tsp of sea salt

1 tsp of ground black pepper

for smoking the chicken :-
chinese wok
a piece of aluminium foil as base
tea leaves - I used Lipton tea leaves
sugar
steaming rack with holes  * see picture above

Method:

Lined the wok with a piece of aluminium foil big enough to take the drips during the smoking process. Spread out the tea leaves and sugar evenly over the foil.  Sit the steaming rack over the leaves and sugar and heat up the wok until you see smoke under medium high heat.  Place the chicken , which has been pan seared till 3/4 cooked, on the rack and cover the wok with the lid.  Smoked the chicken for 20 minutes.  Off heat and cool the chicken before cutting into desired pieces with a sharp cleaver. Serve with rice.

Enjoy !