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Black Pepper Roasted Chicken

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Pieces of black pepper roasted chicken on a platter with sticky rice and sweet chili sauce.
Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Micah Marie Morton

No matter where you stand in Bangkok, there’s bound to be a kai yang ha dao (five-star grilled chicken) kiosk within a one-mile radius selling affordable grilled whole chickens, sweet chile sauce, and warm sticky rice ready for you to grab and go. The fact that this franchise has dominated—no, monopolized—the local rotisserie chicken market for more than 30 years says a lot. I used to go nuts over their extraordinarily juicy, expertly seasoned chicken, especially the very peppery black pepper version. This is my copycat version. 

This recipe was excerpted from ‘Bangkok’ by Leela Punyaratabandhu. Buy the full book on Amazon.

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