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Soy Sauce Chicken
A flavorful Cantonese-style soy sauce chicken cooked with aromatics and simmered in a savory sauce, then cooled and sliced for serving.
Ingredients
14
Steps
13
Filed under: chicken, stir fry, fried, chinese, high protein, gluten free.
Source channel: Made With Lau
Key ingredients
Whole chicken, Aromatics, Light soy sauce, Dark soy sauce, Chicken bouillon.
Ingredients
- Whole chicken
- Aromatics (such as ginger, garlic, scallions)
- Light soy sauce
- Dark soy sauce
- Chicken bouillon
- Sesame oil
- Rice cooking wine
- Shaoxing cooking wine
- Premium oyster sauce
- Chili oil
- Hoisin sauce
- Vegetarian oyster sauce
- Gluten-free oyster sauce
- Handcrafted soy sauce
Method
- Wash the chicken thoroughly.
- Blanch the chicken in boiling water.
- Prepare aromatics such as ginger, garlic, and scallions.
- Stir-fry the aromatics until fragrant.
- Add soy sauce and dark soy sauce to the aromatics.
- Ladle the sauce onto the chicken.
- Simmer the chicken in the sauce until cooked through.
- Transfer the chicken to ice to stop the cooking process and set the flavor.
- Boil the sauce to thicken it.
- Cut the chicken into slices.
- Create additional sauce for serving.
- Add slurry to thicken the sauce if desired.
- Ladle the sauce onto the sliced chicken before serving.