Vietnam Caramel Chicken

Author: Marthinus Strydom
Category: Chicken
Serves/Qty: 4.00
Heidi Strydom

This meal is an amazing combination of sweet, spicy, and salty flavors all sticking to succulent pieces of chicken, fried in a wok with wonderful flavors. Serve with sticky rice and you will not stop eating.

Marthinus Strydom

The Story

Once a lesser-known destination, Vietnam has become widely popular in recent years. With Hanoi consistently ranked among the world's top 10 destinations by TripAdvisor, one can now find European tourists as far as in Ha Giang, one of the most remote mountainous provinces Vietnamese cuisine encompasses the foods and beverages of Vietnam, and features a combination of five fundamental tastes in the overall meal. 

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Ingredients
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¾ cup (36 Teaspoons) brown sugar
⅓ cup (15.84 Teaspoons) cold water
⅓ cup (15.84 Teaspoons) fish sauce
⅓ cup (15.84 Teaspoons) rice vinegar
1 tbsp (3 Teaspoons) soy sauce
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1 tbsp (3 Teaspoons) fresh grated ginger
1 tsp vegetable oil
8 boneless, skinless chicken thighs, sliced in small pieces
1 cup (48 Teaspoons) roasted peanuts
2 fresh jalapeno peppers, seeded and sliced
1 bunch green onions, chopped
fresh cilantro sprigs, for garnish

Method

  1. Whisk brown sugar, water, fish sauce, rice vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, and ginger in a bowl until brown sugar is completely dissolved, about 1 minute. Set aside.
  2. Heat oil over high heat in a skillet. Stir in chicken.
  3. Pour 1/3 of the brown sugar mixture over chicken; cook and stir until the brown sugar mixture has a syrup-like consistency, 6 to 7 minutes.
  4. Pour in the remaining brown sugar mixture; cook until chicken is tender and no longer pink inside, about 5 minutes.
  5. Stir in in peanuts, jalapenos and green onion; cook until warmed through, 2 to 3 minutes.
  6. Garnish with cilantro and serve with rice.