L And Ls Famous Drive-in Barbequed Chicken |
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 20 Minutes |
Ready In: 20 Minutes Servings: 6 |
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When I don't feel like cooking and I'm in the mood for a good Hawaiian-style barbequed chicken meal, I head right to the L&L Drive-In BBQ restaurant in my neighborhood. L&L is famous in Hawaii for their excellent lunch plate meals and dinners. Read more . A lunch plate in Hawii consists of a meat, two scoops of rice and one scoop of Macaroni salad. I actually found the recipe for their BBQ'd chicken submitted by the owner of the company and felt so fortunate that I wanted to share the recipe with you. Just try the recipe once and you'll be hooked on L and L's chicken, too. Its just that good! Ingredients:
4 pounds chicken thigh, deboned, skin on |
ยป marinade |
3 cups soy sauce |
8 ounces sugar (1 cup) |
1 cup water |
1/2 teaspoon minced ginger |
1/4 teaspoon minced garlic |
1/4 teaspoon black pepper |
Directions:
1. If you can't find boneless, skin-on thighs...
2. Butterfly chicken: After removing the bone, place thigh on cutting board and spread it apart so it lies flat. If necessary, cut through side of the thigh, holding knife parallel to cutting board, slicing almost but not all the way through. Spread the halves apart and flatten.
3. Combine marinade ingredients and add chicken. Marinate, refrigerated, 4 to 5 hours.
4. Chicken may be pan-fried, grilled over charcoal or baked at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes. (At L&L, the chicken is cooked on the restaurants' griddles.)
5. RICE RECIPE:
6. Most of the rice served in Hawaii is a medium-grain rice, cooked in electric rice cookers. If you own a rice cooker, use 2 cups of well-rinsed rice and add water to about an inch above the rice level. Using your middle finger, stick it on top of the rice and when it hits the first bone in your finger where your finger bends, that's usually enough rice. Mrs. Vivia Lee Of Pacific Heights on Oahu taught me this over 30 years ago. (And it works!) Cook the rice in a rice cooker until the lever pops. Let the rice sit in cooker for 10 minutes or more and serve with salad below and chicken.
7. Mac and Potato Salad, Hawaii-style
8. 1 bag of large macaroni noodles cooked until soft, not al dente!
9. 1 cup of regular mayonnaise (Kraft, Best Foods or Hellman's) No Miracle Whip, please
10. 1/2 small can of regular tuna, drained or 1 bag dry tuna
11. 3 celery sticks, chopped well
12. 1 finely chopped large carrot
13. 3 hard boiled eggs, chopped
14. 2 large russet potatoes, cooked and cubed (You can defrost a bag of O'Brien potatoes and add a cup or two)
15. salt, pepper
16. You can add a handful of frozen peas that have defrosted in a cup of hot water, without the water of course
17. Mix all of the ingredients together and chill for 2 hours.
18. Mix well and chill
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