Roast Chicken Marinated In Wine Lees

I ferment my own red glutinous rice wine 红曲酒 using My Hokkien grandmother's method which yields both wine and wine lees 红糟. While the family use the lovely mellow wine for drinking and cooking, we do not quite know what to do with all that wine lees.  The most common way to use the wine lees is to stew it with chicken but I am not fond of the dish finding the taste boring. The wine lees tint the chicken a blood red colour and some people, like the Brother and the Father are put off by it.

It is thus a delight to find the roast chicken marinated with wine lees recipe in Sylvia Tan's "mad about food" cook book. With the addition of shallots and garlic, the flavour is much more robust and complex. The wine lees and honey marinate gives the chicken a beautiful reddish brown hue.  A winner in both taste and aesthetics! 

Comments

[Cin]

Gee yr Roast Chicken looks so gooooodddddd! Feel like sinking my teeth into it.

[Evan]

hi juz bloghopping. lovely blog u hv here =)

[Esther]

I have read a recipe that makes it stronger with the addition of red wine.

Though wine lees is enough to bring the details of aroma and flavor, it is better not to overpower it with shallots. you can substitute it with bay leaf and black pepper powder.

[Jackson]

The food looks delicious!!

[Sooi Sooi]

is this what they called "ang cho kei" in hokkien? have always loved it stewed, but never tried the roasted version before!

[Fans of Ang Chow Chiu]

Any chance to post the recipe for the ACC? I hv it as 5kati of G.rice, 3winebiscuit, $1redyeast. Cook/Steam the rice and add the crushed items and mixed well. Ferment for 2wk and longer. But somehow no humps leh. What went wrong?

[ST]

Hi there fans of ACC, what do you mean by no humps? Your recipe looks alright but there are many reasons ACC can go wrong.

[Fans of ACC]

The color and texture is right but the wine fragrant seems mild. I cool the mixture, put them in glass bottles sealed and untouched/unopened until 1 mth. Maybe should give it a few more tries. Any pointers to share?

[ST]

How do u squeeze the mixture into glass bottles?

I use an enamel pot and in it I will alternate layers of glutinous rice, red ferment rice and crushed wine biscuit. In a week's time, there should be wine in the pot. When that has occur, I will open the pot to stir and disperse rice floating on top of the wine. I will continue doing that every 2 or 3 days until all the rice has sink to the bottom of the pot. Only then I leave the pot untouched for a month. After that, I will filter the liquid and bottle the wine and the lees separately.

[ST]

Also, give your wine a few months to mature. The flavour will intensify and the wine turns from reddish to a amber colour.

[Fans of ACC]

Thx a zillion for sharing. Wat I did was sprinkled the dried stuffs on the cool G-rice portion by portion (eveness thing) and scoop them into 5litre glass bottle. Mine yield 2 nescafe bottles of lee and 1 litre of amber color wine. I was warned not to touch it during fermentation (old mythi maybe) or it will sour. Let me try yr method.

[jcheng]

Hi ST,

Is it possible for you to post a step-by-step recipe of how you make your own red wine?

Thank you!

[ST]

Hi jcheng

I am working on posting the recipe. Keep a look out on this space.

[thsuming]

Love to try your recipe in making the red wine. however i try once
very similar to your recipe but don't know why my fermented rice turn moldy. can i have yr way of making it. thank you

[ST]

Hi thsuming

Your fermented rice turned mouldy because the fermentation did not occur. You have to make sure the rice is cold, all the pots and utensils used are clean, dry and oil free. It can also be due to not enough wine biscuit

[jackee]

Roast Chicken Marinated In Wine Lees nice recipe i make that one and put little bit more wine its delicious i enjoy with that dish with french red wine thanks

[Mary]

I could not find any red wine lees. But I ended up buying a packet of red fermented rice. Can anyone tell me whether I can pound the red fermented rice into a powder and use it to marinate the chicken?

[blue]

No you can't pound the red fermented rice into a powder to marinate the chicken. It will only turn your chicken red in colour.