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Gà Kho (Vietnamese Caramelized Chicken)

Name: Gà Kho (Vietnamese Caramelized Chicken)
Prep time: 75 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 105 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: Marinade:; 2 tablespoons fish sauce; 1 tablespoons brown sugar; Meat:; 1.5 lbs chicken drumsticks you can use any cut desired; Sauce:; 1/2 cup brown sugar; 1/4 cup fish sauce; 1/4 cup rice vinegar; 1/4 cup water; 1 tablespoon ginger minced; 1 shallot minced; 3 cloves garlic minced; vegetable oil for frying; Final Additions / garnish:; 2 sprigs of scallion roughly chopped 1/2″-3/4″ long; 1 jalapeno thinly sliced; 1 Thai chili thinly sliced

Prep Time

1h 15m

Cook Time

30m

Total Time

1h 45m

This Vietnamese Caramelized Chicken, or Gà Kho, features tender, juicy chicken drumsticks marinated in a delicious blend of fish sauce and brown sugar. The savory sauce, made with brown sugar, fish sauce, and aromatic spices, adds caramelized flavor to the dish. Garnish with scallions, jalapenos, and Thai chili for an irresistible meal.

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Servings: 2

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2 tablespoons fish sauce

1 tablespoons brown sugar

1.5 lbs chicken drumsticks you can use any cut desired

1/4 cup rice vinegar

1 tablespoon ginger minced

3 cloves garlic minced

vegetable oil for frying

2 sprigs of scallion roughly chopped 1/2″-3/4″ long

1 jalapeno thinly sliced

1 Thai chili thinly sliced

Marinade in about 2 tablespoons fish sauce and 1 tablespoons brown sugar for a least 1 hour. Rotate and redistribute marinade after the first 30 minutes.

Combine for the sauce: 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/4 cup fish sauce, 1/4 cup rice vinegar, 1/4 cup water

Then add to the sauce 1 tablespoon minced ginger, 1 minced shallot, and 3 cloves minced garlic.

Heat a pan on high heat, then add some vegetable oil. Add the chicken and rotate as it browns. This should only take a 1-2 minutes.

Turn down the heat to about medium so the chicken can cook through.

Add some of the sauce, just enough to color and kind of baste the meat as it cooks.

You could add the rest of the sauce now too, but I find it makes more sense to cook them separately so you can control the doneness of the chicken and thickness of the sauce independently.

Remove the chicken. Add the rest of the sauce and cook on medium high heat until it just reaches desired consistency.

Add the sliced jalapeno and scallion to cook just slightly as the sauce finishes. If you want more bite to the jalapeno, slice it thicker and don’t let it cook too much (same with the scallion).

Gà Kho (Vietnamese Caramelized Chicken)

Ingredients

Marinade

Meat

Sauce

Final Additions / Garnish

Steps

Nutrition Facts

Gà Kho (Vietnamese Caramelized Chicken)

Ingredients

Marinade

Meat

Sauce

Final Additions / Garnish

Steps

Nutrition Facts Nutrition facts are based on 1 serving. If servings is not specified, 6 is assumed for the total recipe.

Nutrition Facts