Chicken with Lemongrass

Preparation info
  • Makes

    2 to 4

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Jean-Georges: Cooking at Home with a Four-Star Chef

By Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Mark Bittman

Published 1998

  • About

A Vong standard, in which you make a powerful marinade, then wrap the halves of a whole boned chicken around it. The next day, you do the cooking—which is the easy part. The results are beyond divine. Serve this with Sticky Rice Steamed in Banana Leaves and Peppery Green Beans.

I’ve left the serving size vague intentionally, because although few of us eat half of a chicken at one sitting, most people seem to be ab