Soy Sauce Chicken is one of the most fragrant dishes that we can cook. The fragrance comes from the spices used - cinnamon sticks, gloves, star anise, garlic and ginger. It is easy to cook and is good enough not only for daily meals. It can be served during gatherings and festival celebrations as well.
Ingredients:
- 750 g chicken (1/2 of a small chicken)
- 1 tbsp cooking oil
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 8 pcs cloves
- 2 pcs star anise
- 3 cloves garlic
- 2 inch ginger
- 1 tbsp rock sugar
- 1 tbsp + 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
- 2 tbsp light soy sauce
- 2 tbsp Chinese cooking wine
- 500 ml water
- 1 big bunch green onions, wash and cut according to the diameter of the pot to cook the chicken in
- 1 tsp salt or to taste
- 1 tsp pepper
Method:
- Wash chicken and let it dry. Rub it with 1 tbsp dark soy sauce and let it sit for about 1/2 hour.
- Heat up a pot with cooking oil.
- Add cinnamon sticks, cloves, star anise, garlic and ginger. Saute them until they are fragrant.
- Add rock sugar. Fry them with the spices till they dissolve.
- Add dark and light soy sauce and cooking wine.
- Add the water.
- Let the sauce boil.
- In another pot, arrange the green onions on the base. Let the chicken rest on the green onions, skin side down. The green onions are to prevent the skin of the chicken from sticking to the pot.
- Pour the boiled sauce slowly into the pot till it covers the chicken.
- Let the sauce simmers over medium heat till the chicken is cooked. (Check the pot every now and then to ensure that the sauce does not dry up.)
- Once the chicken is cooked, remove it from the pot.
- Cut up the chicken.
- Drizzle it with some of the sauce. (It would be a waste to pour the remaining sauce away. So, boil a few eggs, peel them and soak them in the sauce. Or, you may add fried taukwa to the sauce.)
- Sprinkle some cut green onion on the chicken and serve.
