crock pot miso chicken
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Whenever I'm go home to Hawaii, I read the Star Advertiser's food section cover-to-cover. This recipe is from when I was last in Hawaii. Yes, I actually took the physical paper back with me and carried around for nearly six months before I finally made it. The ingredients are nearly identical to Peanut Butter Beer Miso Chicken, which is based on a Sam Choy recipe. I did this as a 2-day experiment.
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Skin the chicken and cut off most of the fat. Mix all ingredients except chicken and post-crock-pot ingredients. Add the chicken and mix it around to make sure it's coated. Set the crock pot on low for about 4 1/2 hours. At the end, the meat will fall off the bones and it will look a little like Kalua Pig.
Toss out the bones and separate the chicken from the sauce. Store overnight.
On the actual meal day, drizzle canola oil in a pan. Cook onion til tender and just beginning to carmelize. Add a little bit of the sauce, then add peppers and cook til just done. Separately, heat up the chicken and some sauce. Pour over vegetables and eat with hot rice.
NOTES:
1) The Good: texture is good, and I love the mix, dump and cook simplicity.
2) What Needs Fixing: out of the gate, it is way, way, way too sweet. Less brown sugar and maybe less peanut butter too.
3) What is Definitely a Bad Idea: using crunchy peanut butter. The crock pot makes the texture of the peanuts very weird. Best to use creamy PB.
4) What Other Kinds of Sides Might Make It Better: something with more flavor bite and a crunchy texture. As part of its leftover rehabilitation, I'm making another Greenhouse work-in-progress, Spicy Asian Slaw and putting it into burritos.
Toss out the bones and separate the chicken from the sauce. Store overnight.
On the actual meal day, drizzle canola oil in a pan. Cook onion til tender and just beginning to carmelize. Add a little bit of the sauce, then add peppers and cook til just done. Separately, heat up the chicken and some sauce. Pour over vegetables and eat with hot rice.
NOTES:
1) The Good: texture is good, and I love the mix, dump and cook simplicity.
2) What Needs Fixing: out of the gate, it is way, way, way too sweet. Less brown sugar and maybe less peanut butter too.
3) What is Definitely a Bad Idea: using crunchy peanut butter. The crock pot makes the texture of the peanuts very weird. Best to use creamy PB.
4) What Other Kinds of Sides Might Make It Better: something with more flavor bite and a crunchy texture. As part of its leftover rehabilitation, I'm making another Greenhouse work-in-progress, Spicy Asian Slaw and putting it into burritos.