Moa Samoa - Polynesian Brown Sugar Chicken

Here's to a greater extent than or less other recipe from Me'a Kai's Samoan section. I've been wanting to practise to a greater extent than alongside this majority than only reading it together with slobbering over the pictures hence I've been marker (with the 3 pretty coloured ribbons attached to the book) recipes that I desire to make.

I was easily seduced past times the photo inwards the majority of a succulent , glazed chicken leg , together with reckon , 'Yum! That's dinner.'

My innovation of activeness was simple. See , my chicken was already defrosted together with I had 2 hours earlier dinner time. I figured it would stimulate got me mere minutes to throw together the marinade , the chicken would soak inwards it land I got the coals going , together with then , similar the domestic goddess I am , I'd throw the marinated pieces on the grill - baste together with plough them alongside i paw land making a garden together with white patato salad alongside the other paw - together with Voila! Bon appetit!

In an ideal basis , that would stimulate got happened. 

In my basis , I realised halfway through mixing the marinade that I needed limes together with star anise , hence I had to run downwards to the store. Returned alongside said ingredients , finished mixing , threw the chicken inwards , together with then decided , belatedly , to scream to the majority for the minimum marinading time. 

3 hours.

Hm.

And upwards to 2 days.

Huh.

And forget virtually the coals. There's also much saccharide inwards the marinade , hence the chicken would dismiss earlier it cooked.

I sighed heavily , tum rumbling. Guess it's the old alaisa (rice) and elegi (tinned fish) tonight. Again.

So I learned my lesson , a lesson that I larn every span of weeks actually: Read the recipe.

Put all the marinade ingredients together inwards a bowl together with mix. Divide the marinade inwards half.

Put one-half the marinade inwards a pot together with trim back to a third. In other words , simmer until 2 thirds of it is gone. The residuum should endure thicker together with darker than the original.

Strain the reduced marinade together with laid aside until needed. This may endure 3 hours afterwards , or 2 days afterwards , depending on how long y'all acquire out the chicken. The other one-half of the marinade is what y'all acquire out the chicken in.

Bake the chicken until done , basting frequently. Brush alongside the reserved glaze.

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