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7Up Chicken Asado
Filipino-style whole chicken marinated in soy sauce and peppercorns, stuffed with aromatics, and simmered in 7Up until tender. Finished with a reduced savory-sweet sauce poured over the carved chicken.
Filipino Updated 5/25/2018
Ingredients
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- 1 whole chicken
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 1 1/2 teaspoons peppercorn crushed
- 1 piece red onion minced
- 3 bunches lemongrass tied into knots
- 1 piece red onion sliced
- 4 cloves garlic crushed
- 3 tablespoons cooking oil
- 1 liter 7 Up
- 5 pieces star anise
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- salt
Instructions
11 cooking steps
- Place chicken on a plate or bowl. Pour soy sauce all over the chicken. Sprinkle crushed peppercorn and then rub all over the chicken.
- Insert onion and lemongrass into the cavity of the chicken. Let it stay for 10 minutes.
- Heat oil in a large cooking pot, and then sauté onion and garlic until the onion becomes soft.
- Add the marinated chicken. Cook one side in medium heat for 3 minutes. Turn the chicken over and cook the opposite side for 3 minutes.
- Pour the remaining marinade and 1 liter of 7Up (or any similar product). Let boil.
- Add star anise. Cover and cook between low to medium heat for 30 minutes.
- Turn the chicken over and continue to boil the opposite side for 12 minutes.
- Remove the chicken from the cooking pot. Slice in half and arrange on a serving plate.
- Continue to cook the sauce in the cooking pot until it reduces to half. Add garlic powder and onion powder. Stir.
- Filter the sauce using a kitchen sieve or strainer. Pour all over the chicken.
- Serve. Share and enjoy!
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