Marmite chicken. How to cook Marmite chicken Chinese style. This Malaysian Marmite chicken recipe 妈蜜鸡 is popular among the Chinese restaurant and the roadside stir-fry joints (大炒档) in Malaysia. Although I've tried Marmite dishes before at the zhi char stall but prior to this, I seriously wasn't quite sure of what's Marmite at all.
Marmite chicken is a popular dish found at Chinese eateries known as 'dai chao' which are commonly found throughout Malaysia or at 'zi char' in Singapore.
Homestyle marmite chicken involves deep-frying large pieces of chicken and then coating them with a very thick, sticky and sweet Marmite sauce.
Marinade chicken pieces with ingredients (A) for at least one hour.
You can cook Marmite chicken using 6 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Marmite chicken
- Prepare 2 of Chicken Legs & thighs with skin on.
- Prepare 1.5 tbsp of marmite.
- It's 1 tsp of sugar.
- It's Half of cup of water.
- It's of Curry leaves (I deep fried mine too).
- It's of Corn flour.
Deep fry chicken pieces until Note: Marmite is a brand of yeast extract. Do not add more than required as it has a strong flavour. Return pre-fried chicken to the wok and toss until well coated with the sauce. Mix well all over chicken pieces.
Marmite chicken step by step
- Coat chicken with corn flour and deep fry at high heat till slightly crispy..
- Dissolve marmite, sugar and water in pan. Add in fried chicken and curry leaves. You may add in more sugar to taste as some may find marmite to be very salty.
- Simmer sauce down till chicken is coated evenly and slightly sticky. Serve with rice!.
Heat oil, add in chicken pieces to brown. When it is browned on one side, flip to the other side to brown. These marmite chicken wings have a sticky, beautiful glaze with a deep marmite flavour. First wash, rinse and drain well the chicken. This will be saved to your scrapbook.