Thai
Kai Yang (Isaan Grilled Chicken)
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Kai Yang (Isaan Grilled Chicken) is Thai home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Pound the cilantro root, garlic and white pepper into a paste.
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Mix with the fish sauce, palm sugar and turmeric.
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Rub the marinade all over the chicken, working it under the skin.
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Marinate at least 1 hour, or overnight for best flavor.
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Grill over medium-low charcoal, turning often and mostly unattended, until the skin is deeply charred and the chicken is cooked through, about 45 minutes.
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Rest before cutting into pieces. This is weekend and outdoor food, pairing with sticky rice and nam jim jaew.
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Serve it with
A Thai dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Kai Yang (Isaan Grilled Chicken), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Kai Yang (Isaan Grilled Chicken) carries fish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Jok Moo (Rice Congee with Pork Meatballs) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 620 kcal
- Protein
- 46 g
- Carbs
- 9 g
- Fat
- 44 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 7 g
- Sodium
- 1160 mg
- Saturated fat
- 13 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Kai Yang (Isaan Grilled Chicken) takes about 70 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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