Unique Chicken Recipe that's Awesome • Taste Show

chicken

🥗Healthier: turkey

💰Cheaper: chicken thighs

Turkey is leaner, while chicken thighs are more budget-friendly.

chestnuts

🥗Healthier: walnuts

💰Cheaper: canned mushrooms

Walnuts provide healthy fats, while canned mushrooms are often cheaper.

Spread soy sauce over entire chicken skin and rub it thoroughly.

In a deep cooking pot, bring enough cooking oil to 350-420°F/180-220°C, and deep fry whole chicken until the skin is golden and crispy.

In a cooking pan, add a tablespoon of oil, green onion, ginger, cinnamon stick, star anise, water, soy sauce, Shaoxing wine, and dark brown sugar. Bring to a boil, then add the fried chicken. Lower the heat, cover, and simmer for 1 hour.

Remove the lid, bring up the heat, and thicken the liquid. Then remove the whole chicken from the cooking pan. Refrigerate for 2 hours.

Place the chicken with breast side facing down in a bowl and de-bone the whole chicken carefully.

Add chestnuts over the boneless chicken in the bowl. Then add soy sauce, Shaoxing wine, rock sugar, star anises, and cinnamon stick.

Steam for 30 minutes.

Remove the bowl from the steamer, pour the liquid into a cooking pan, and bring to a boil. Add the slurry to thicken the sauce.

Cover the bowl with a plate, flip it over, and remove the bowl.

Drizzle with thickened sauce over the chicken.

Enjoy!

Cooking Techniques

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