Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night Feast
By Jamie Oliver
1 hr 45 mins
Not Too Tricky
serves 6
About the recipe
Spice up your weekend with my addictively tangy Asian-inspired roast, featuring an amazing sticky kimchi marinade and a vibrant slaw. Load it all up in my beautifully light and fluffy coconut bao for the perfect mouthful. It’s going to get messy!
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Ingredients
3 tablespoons sesame seeds
250g kimchi
2 tablespoons gochujang paste
2 tablespoons low-salt soy sauce
2 tablespoons rice vinegar
1.4 kg whole free-range chicken
2 tablespoons runny honey
BUNS
sesame oil
1 x 400g tin of light coconut milk
2 coconut milk tins’ worth of self raising flour (500g), plus extra for dusting
SLAW
2 carrots
4 spring onions
2 fresh red chillies
1 bok choi
½ a Chinese cabbage
2 limes
1 teaspoon sesame oil
½ a teaspoon gochugaru (Korean red pepper powder)
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas 4.
- Toast the sesame seeds in a dry frying pan for 3 to 5 minutes, or until golden and nutty.
- Put the kimchi, gochujang, soy sauce, rice vinegar and 2 tablespoons of the sesame seeds into a blender, and whiz until smooth.
- Place the chicken in a snug-fitting baking tray. Pour one third of the marinade over the chicken and rub it in to all the nooks and crannies. Roast for 1 hour 20 minutes, or until everything is gnarly and cooked through.
- Add the honey to the remaining marinade and blitz until combined. Pour half into a small bowl and set aside – this will be your dipping sauce. Keep the rest of the sauce for your glaze.
- For the buns, cut out 12 x 8cm squares of greaseproof paper and rub each one with a little sesame oil to stop the buns sticking. Pour the coconut milk into a large mixing bowl, then add the flour and a good pinch of sea salt. Start mixing with a fork then get in there with your hands and knead until you have a soft, smooth dough – or do all this in a food processor.
- Tip the dough onto a flour-dusted work surface and roll into a sausage shape. Quarter it, then cut each piece into three to make 12 even-sized pieces and roll each into a ball. One-by-one, with a rolling pin, roll the balls into 10cm x 12cm ovals. Lay an oiled chopstick across the middle like a hinge, fold the dough in half and pull the chopstick out. Place each bun on a little rectangle of greaseproof paper ready for steaming.
- Remove the chicken from the oven and turn it off. Spoon over the reserved glaze to create another sticky layer and sprinkle over the remaining sesame seeds. Transfer to a plate and return to the oven to keep warm and tighten up the glaze while you cook the buns.
- Working in batches, place the buns on their greaseproof squares into a large bamboo steamer and pop the lid on. Place the steamer over a large frying pan or wok filled with 300ml of boiling water and steam for 8 to 10 minutes, or until fluffy and cooked through.
- For the slaw, scrub the carrots, trim the spring onions and chillies (deseed if you like), bok choi and cabbage. Finely zest and juice the limes into a serving bowl, add a little sesame oil and a good pinch of gochugaru. Finely chop all the slaw ingredients, drop them into the dressing bowl and toss with your hands to dress.
- Shred the chicken and serve with the coconut buns, slaw and remaining sauce.
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