Soya Chicken Recipe


INGREDIENTS:

  • 1 cup dark soy sauce
  • 1 cup light soy sauce
  • 1/2 cup Chinese rice wine or dry sherry
  • 1/2 cup packed brown sugar or 1/2 cup Chinese rock sugar
  • 1 tsp fennel seeds
  • 3 whole star anise
  • 1 tsp Szechuan peppercorn - roasted
  • 1 inch fresh ginger - peeled and lightly smashed
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 500 g chicken legs

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Combine all ingredients except the chicken in a pot. Bring to boil in medium heat.
  2. Add in the chicken and bring back to boil.
  3. Lower heat and simmer for 30 minutes. Turn or braise chicken with the sauce from time to time.
  4. Turn off heat, cover pot (if not yet covered) and let sit for 1 hour.
  5. Remove chicken from sauce. Cut up into serving pieces and serve with steamed rice or noodles in soup.

Note: The sauce can be re-used. Just re-boil it, strain the spices and discard, cool the sauce completely and then store in a glass or plastic container in the fridge.


Source: English Patis

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