Lechon Manok (Pinoy Roast Chicken)
5.0
Ingredients
- Prep
- 25 min
- Cook
- 60 min
- Total
- 340 min
Instructions
- 1 Combine onion, garlic, calamansi juice, fish sauce, salt, black pepper, and brown sugar in a bowl to make marinade.
- 2 Place chicken in a roasting pan. Rub marinade over chicken, including inside the cavity. Let chicken marinate in the refrigerator, about 4 hours. Reserve leftover marinade in the bowl.
- 3 Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
- 4 Trim lemongrass, discarding tough outer stalks. Pound inner stalks with a heavy object until bruised. Place lemongrass and bay leaves inside the chicken cavity.
- 5 Stir oil into the leftover marinade in the bowl.
- 6 Roast chicken in the preheated oven, basting with the oil mixture from time to time, until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the thigh reads 165 degrees F (74 degrees C), 60 to 90 minutes.
- 7 Remove chicken from the oven and allow to rest in a warm area for 15 minutes before serving.
By mekmolek