Lemongrass Chicken Marinade

From Recipe Bridge. See Lemongrass Sweet Chili Sauce or Thai Sweet Chili Sauce for a complimentary dipping sauce. This is one to impress your family. Enough marinade for 1 - 1/4 pound chicken drumettes, wings, thighs or breast meat cut into workable pieces.

• Ready In: 5 mins
• Yields: 1 cup

Ingredients

• 3  tablespoons  finely-minced lemongrass (fresh or frozen-prepared)
• 3  tablespoons sherry wine
• 2  tablespoons soy sauce
• 3  tablespoons fish sauce
• 1  thumb-size piece ginger, galangal or 1  thai ginger, grated
• 4  garlic cloves, minced
• 1  fresh red  chili, minced or 1⁄2 teaspoon  dried crushed  chili
• 1⁄2 tablespoon  coursely-ground black pepper
• 2 1⁄2 tablespoons brown sugar

Directions

1. With a pestle & mortar crush together the lemongrass, garlic, ginger and chili together into a paste, then stir in the other ingredients. A mini-food chopper can be used instead or simply mince all ingredients very well by hand and combine in a small bowl. Pour marinade over the chicken, stirring well to coat the meat. Cover and set in the refrigerator to marinate at least 30 minutes or up to 24 hours.