Chicken with Sprite and Oyster Sauce

Chicken with Sprite and Oyster Sauce is an amazingly delicious and easy dish that just needs a whole chicken, garlic, onions, a bottle or a can of Sprite, oyster sauce, soy sauce, lemongrass, salt, pepper, and some spring onions to top it off. There might be a multitude of chicken recipes on the internet but this chicken and soda recipe will surely not only catch your interest but will inevitably make you fall in love.

Chicken with Sprite and Oyster Sauce Recipe :

• 1 kilo whole chicken ( butterfly cut )
• 6 cloves garlic ( minced )
• 1 medium onion ( chopped )
• 2 to 3 cups sprite
• 3 tablespoons oyster sauce
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1 bunch lemongrass ( tied and pounded )
• Salt and pepper to season
• Spring onions ( chopped )
• Oil 

Steps:

1. First, season the chicken with salt and pepper on both sides. Heat some oil in a pan and sear the chicken until both sides have browned. Flipping if needed.
2. In the same pan, saute garlic until aromatic before adding the onions. Then place back the chicken. Pour in the sprite, oyster sauce, soy sauce, and lemongrass. Mix well.
3. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes at medium heat. After, flip the chicken and cook for another 15 minutes. Flip once more. Now at low medium heat, cover and let this cook until the sauce has reduced.
4. Baste the chicken with the sauce a few more times to add more color and flavor. Then serve garnished with spring onions.

Butterfly Chicken with Sprite and Oyster Sauce Recipe

What can be more delicious and uniquely interesting other than this Butterfly Chicken with Sprite and Oyster Sauce Recipe? A sweet, really savory tasting chicken recipe that combines the sweetness of a carbonated drink and the simple savory aromatic sauce base, and a whole chicken. You might think that this flavorful roast is sickly sweet but the outcome is really a tender and juicy chicken that has soaked up the umami simple sauce base.

This whole chicken sprite recipe can be made in just 4 steps. Seasoning the chicken that’s been sliced into a butterfly cut. Meaning that it was sliced halfway then pressed down further to really open up the chicken and get it to flatten. This also helps the chicken cook more evenly. Sear the chicken until both sides have browned with a bit of oil. Take the chicken out to saute the garlic and onions. This awakens the aromatics and brings out the flavor and aroma. Add back the chicken once the onions have softened. Pout in the Sprite or your choice of carbonated soda to help tenderize and keep the chicken juicy, oyster sauce and soy sauce for a nice umami taste, then lemongrass to help remove any foul smells and add a nice subtle minty and sweet lemon taste. The pan or pot is then covered for 30 minutes, flipping the chicken halfway to make sure it’s evenly cooked. Then turn the chicken once more, now at low heat cover the chicken once more and let these simmer together until the sauce has reduced halfway. 

Baste the chicken with the remaining sauce to help add more color, flavor, and shine to the chicken. Transfer to a serving plate, garnish with spring onions to add some pop of color and it’s done! It’s a quick and easy dish that’s perfect as a dish to pair with an ice cold drink, with loads of rice, or even as is.

Questions

• Other ways of cooking 
  • Try a Dutch Oven Sprite Chicken Sprite dish – To make chicken using a dutch oven just preheat the oven to 175°C or 350°F. Sear the seasoned chicken in the pot. Taste these out and cook the aromatics before adding back the chicken and pouring in all the other ingredients. Bake for 40 – 50 minutes or until the chicken has cooked. If you want more flavor, the chicken marinated in sprite with all the other ingredients can be prepared overnight before searing and baking.
  • Or try a Crockpot Sprite Chicken Recipe – similar to the dutch oven version, season and sear the chicken, then the aromatics, then place everything back in the pot. Cover and let this cook at low heat for 5 to 6 hours or until the chicken has fully cooked. You can also create the sprite chicken marinade before the day you need to cook the dish to really get the flavors to penetrate the chicken.

• Additional Ingredients

You can also add to this Chicken with Oyster Sauce and Sprite dish to make it even more Yummier, try:

• Chicken with Sprite and Ketchup – if you want a savory and richly colored chicken dish. Add half a cup of tomato sauce or 2 – 3 tablespoons of tomato paste.
• Chicken with Sprite and Pineapple –  the main flavoring and tenderizer is the soda marinade for chicken. You can also add fruit juice, especially acidic fruits like lemon, orange, and if you really want to make sure the chicken gets tender, pineapple juice. You can also add in the pineapple chunks or rings at the end when basting the sauce.
• Chinese Chicken and Sprite – adding a half a teaspoon or so of a 5 spice powder with the soda. You can also add in spices like star anise, cloves, and bay leaves to add that touch of Chinese flavor.

• How long does it take to marinate chicken in Sprite ?

If you want to marinade the chicken to really make sure the chicken turns out tender. You can marinade it as quick as 1 to 2 hours or overnight.

• Alternatives drinks to chicken sprite

For this chicken soda dish, you can use any type of sparkling drink you’d like. Just note that the flavors of the drink may change the recipe’s taste. Some substitute for sprite in the marinade would be coke, 7Up, ginger beer, lemon-lime sodas, or a simple sparkling drink with or without a zest to it. As long as it’s a carbonated drink, it will help tenderize the meat.

Try our other Yummy recipes with sprite :

• Sprite Chicken Wings
• Garlic Buttered Shrimp with Sprite
• Pork Adobo with Sprite
• Sprite Fried Chicken
• Ginisang Tahong with Sprite

Chicken with oyster sauce recipe Filipino style ( Tagalog )

Mga Sankap:

• 1 kilo buong manok ( hinati ng pa butterfly )
• 6 butil ng bawang ( tinadtad )
• 1 sibuyas ( tinadtad )
• 2 o 3 tasa Sprite
• 3 kutsarang oyster sauce
• 2 kutsarang soy sauce
• 1 tanglad ( tinali at pinukpok )
• Asin at paminta panlasa
• Dahon ng Sibuyas ( tinadtad )
• Mantika

Paano Lutuin :

1. Una, kuskusin ng asin at paminta ang buong manok. Uminit ng mantika sa kawali at lutuin ang maniok hanggang mag kayumanggi ang bawat gilid. Pag baliktaran kung kinakailangan. 
2. Sa parehong kawali, lutuin ang bawang hanggang bumango bago haluan ng mga sibuyas. Ibalik ang manok. Buhusan ito ng sprite, oyster sauce, soy sauce, at tanglad. Haluin ng mabuti.
3. Takpan at pakuluin ng 15 minuto sa katamtamang init. Pagkatapos, pag baliktaran at lutuin ng 15 minuto. Baliktarin muli, ngayon naman sa mababang init, takpan at lutuin hanggang kumonti ang sarsa.
4. I-baste ang manok ng sarsa ng ilang beses pa para mas lumakas ang kulay at lasa nito. Ihanda na na-dekorasyonan ng mga dahon ng sibuyas.