This Zippy Grilled Lemongrass Chicken Is Full of Flavor
Lemongrass chicken is a signature Vietnamese dish that we love for its range of flavors. Lemongrass is an herb used commonly throughout the cuisines of Southeast Asian countries, and lends a light lemon and pepper scent to whatever it’s paired with. In addition to being a flavor-packed heavyweight, lemongrass goes well with the sriracha-brown sugar sauce and scallion oil that gets drizzled on the chicken after it’s grilled. Get ready to fall in love with fresh lemongrass, which in its raw form is spicy, but once cooked mellows into a wonderful lemony and fragrant taste. Want more honey-sticky goodness? Try our Hot Honey Chicken, too!
Wondering How To Prepare Lemongrass? It’s Easy!
Lemongrass is simple to prepare, just treat it similarly to a scallion. First, remove the tough, outer layers and cut off the root end. We’ll be using the tender, inside stalk. Roughly chop the lemongrass stalk–about five inches will yield enough for our purposes. Once the lemongrass is prepared you’ll add it to a food processor along with ginger, garlic, honey, oil and a touch of salt, unlocking all of the flavors of lemongrass to coat your chicken.
Fire Up The Grill, Here’s How To Make Lemongrass Chicken
Heat grill to medium-high heat.
Prepare the lemongrass paste in a food processor and coat the spatchcocked chicken all over.
Grill the chicken until brown and lightly-charred (hello crispy flavor bits), then turn the grill to low and flip the chicken over, cooking for about 45 minutes more.
While the chicken is doing its thing on the grill, make the sriracha-brown sugar sauce and scallion oil.
Call everyone to the table, and impress them with a drizzle of sriracha-brown sugar sauce and scallion oil for all the ooh’s and ah’s this grilled lemongrass chicken deserves!
Tools You’ll Need
Kitchen shears for spatchcocking the chicken.
A food processor for making the lemongrass paste
A hot grill (charcoal or gas will work) and grill tongs
Using an instant read thermometer takes the guesswork out of cooking the chicken to temperature
Lemongrass, Just What Your Chicken Recipes Have Been Waiting For
A couple more great ways to incorporate lemongrass into your recipes, and one simple lemon chicken recipe if you don't have lemongrass on hand, but are still craving a light and bright chicken dish:
Show Us Some Lemongrass Love
Snap a photo of your grilled lemongrass chicken and maybe even a video of the beautiful people you feed it to. Tag us on Instagram using @themodernproper and #themodernproper. Happy grilling!
