Thai grilled chicken (gai yang ไก่ย่าง)

Thai grilled chicken (gai yang ไก่ย่าง)

Ingredients you’ll need

2 whole chickens (mine were 1.8 kilos per chicken)
Bamboo sticks or skewers
Charcoal
Grill

For the marinade

4 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon fish sauce
2 tablespoons palm sugar
1 tablespoon dark sweet soy sauce (substitute some Indonesian kecap manis)
8 tablespoons water
4 heads garlic (30 – 40 cloves)
2 stalks lemongrass
2.5 tablespoons black pepper corns
8 coriander roots (optional, but highly recommended if you can find them, you can also try the powder version – I’ve never tried it, but I think it would work)

Thai grilled chicken sauce

Keep in mind that for all these sauce ingredients, you may need to do some taste testing as you add ingredients – these are not exact amounts.
1.5 tablespoons toasted rice powder (recipe here)
1.5 tablespoons chili flakes
1 tablespoon sugar
3 tablespoons fish sauce
8 tablespoons tamarind watered down (about this amount, but you can add more or less depending on your taste)

Few sprigs of cilantro to garnish