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Rotisserie Chicken with Chinese Oyster Sauce Glaze

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  • Author: Mike Vrobel
  • Total Time: 5 hours
  • Yield: 1 whole chicken 1x

Description

Rotisserie Chicken with Chinese Oyster Sauce Glaze

Ingredients

Scale
  • 4-pound chicken

Marinade

  • 1/2 cup soy sauce
  • 2 tablespoons Shao Xing rice wine (or substitute dry sherry)
  • 1 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 clove garlic, smashed
  • 1 quarter-sized piece of ginger, smashed
  • 1 scallion, minced
  • 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil

Oyster Sauce glaze

  • 1/4 cup soy sauce
  • 1/4 cup oyster sauce
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil

Instructions

  1. Marinate the chicken: Whisk the marinade ingredients in a bowl until the sugar dissolves. Put the chicken in a gallon zip top bag and pour the marinade over the bird. Squeeze the air out of the bag, seal, and put the bagged chicken in a baking dish in the refrigerator. Refrigerate for at least one hour, preferably four hours, turning occasionally to redistribute the marinade.
  2. Truss and spit the chicken: Remove the chicken from the bag, letting excess marinade drip off. Fold the wing tips under the wings and truss the chicken. Skewer the chicken on the rotisserie spit, securing it with the spit forks. Pick off any bits of scallion, garlic, or ginger that stuck to the chicken - they'll burn in the heat of the grill. Let the chicken rest at room temperature while the grill preheats.
  3. Set up the grill for indirect high heat (400°F +): Prepare the grill for cooking on indirect high heat (see details here). For my Weber kettle, I light a Weber Chimney Starter full of charcoal, wait for it to be covered with ash, then pour it in two equal piles on the sides of the grill, and put the drip pan in the middle, between the piles. (The Weber Chimney Starter holds 5 quarts of charcoal, the perfect size for this recipe.)
  4. Make the Oyster Sauce glaze: Whisk the Oyster Sauce glaze ingredients in a medium bowl. Set aside for later.
  5. Rotisserie grill the chicken: Put the spit on the grill, start the motor spinning, and make sure the drip pan is centered beneath the chicken. Close the lid and cook until the chicken reaches 160°F in the thickest part of the breast, about 1 hour. During the last 15 minutes of cooking, brush the chicken with the Oyster Sauce glaze every five minutes.
  6. Serve: Remove the chicken from the rotisserie spit and remove the twine trussing the chicken. Be careful - the spit and forks are blazing hot. Let the chicken rest for 15 minutes, then carve, drizzle with any the remaining oyster glaze, and serve.

Notes

The recipe has my standard rotisserie chicken timings - cook a 4 pound chicken on indirect high heat for about 1 hour. The chicken in the pictures is 3 pounds, and it finished in 45 minutes - 163°F in the breast. Remember: cook to the internal temperature, not the time. That's the best way to know when the chicken is done.

Of course, you could turn this into hoisin glazed chicken, my original planned recipe. Replace the oyster sauce with hoisin sauce.

Tools

Grill with Rotisserie attachment (I used a Weber kettle with the Rotisserie attachment; the kettle is here and the rotisserie attachment is here)

Aluminum foil drip pan (9"x12", or whatever fits your grill)

Butcher's twine

Chimney Starter (for a charcoal grill)

  • Prep Time: 4 hours
  • Cook Time: 1 hour
  • Category: Sunday Dinner
  • Method: Rotisserie
  • Cuisine: Chinese

Find it online: https://www.dadcooksdinner.com/rotisserie-chicken-with-chinese-oyster-sauce-glaze/