Sunday, July 11, 2010

Island Thai-napple Chicken Wings

The secret is in the pineapple

When stuck on some god forsaken island chain in the heartless, ice-blue, tropical hell called Hawai'i, one results to cooking things with island themes. Two island themes in this one: Asian things, and pineapple. This earned me a top chef spot at an imaginary Dive Bar where there are jazz musicians and scuba equipment for sale. Literally.

Make a rub of ground ginger, salt, pepper, and dehydrated onions. Rub it all over the wings and grill them to perfection.

Here is an interesting way to get great pineapple flavor: from a pineapple. Cut a pineapple up into disks and remove the outer shit, you know what I mean, but I don't know what it is called, you know, that artichoke fish scale of prickly things? Anyway, save the slices in a big bowl to collect juice. Grill the pineapple and then return to dish to catch even more juice.

Then toss the wings with the pineapple juice, fish sauce and cayenne red pepper sauce (1:4 ratio at least) and sprinkle cilantro on it. Supplement with pineapple chunks as required.

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