Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, sweet soy sauce chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mix together the Sauce Thickening ingredients and add to the saucepan. Simmer until it it thickens to a syrup consistency. Toss the chicken in the sauce and serve over rice.
Sweet Soy Sauce Chicken is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Sweet Soy Sauce Chicken is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have sweet soy sauce chicken using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Sweet Soy Sauce Chicken:
- Take Half a chicken
- Take Juice of 1 small lime
- Get 2 tsp ground coriander (ketumbar)
- Get 2 tsp ground pepper
- Get 5 candlenut (kemiri)
- Get 5 garlic
- Get 6 shallot
- Take Half thumb sized ginger
- Make ready 1/4 large onion
- Take 1/2 large tomato
- Prepare 2 bay leaf (daun salam)
- Prepare 2 cayenne pepper (cabai rawit)
- Take Few sprigs of cilantro (daun ketumbar)
- Make ready 2 lemongrass
- Take 200 ml soy sauce (12-15 tbsp)
- Make ready 500 ml vegetable/frying oil
- Make ready 100 ml water
Serve with rice and steamed snow peas for a complete meal. Bring to a boil and cook until sauce is slightly reduced and thickened. Soy Sauce Chicken or "See Yao Gai" is a quintessential Cantonese favorite, found hanging under heat lamps in many Chinatown restaurant windows. You'll find it near the poached chickens, roast ducks, and roast pork.
Steps to make Sweet Soy Sauce Chicken:
- Marinade half a chicken with lime juice, 1 tsp of ground coriander, and 1 tsp of ground pepper for 30 minutes
- Prepare your seasoning paste by blending candlenuts, garlic cloves, shallots, and ginger together with a help of 2 tbsp of vegetable oil
- Cut the onion, tomato, chilli, and cilantro. Crush the lemon grass and tie them into knots
- Heat the frying oil in a pan and cook the chicken on medium heat until the outer part of each cut is cooked. Don’t let the chicken dry out while frying because we’re going to cook it again with the sauce later
- Reduce the remaining oil by half and use to cook the seasoning paste on medium heat. Keep stirring while cooking until the paste turns golden. Add the onion and cook again for another minute. Add the bay leaves and the lemon grass
- Pour the soy sauce onto the pan by circling it onto the outmost part of the pan. Add the ground coriander, salt, and pepper and stir the sauce
- Now it’s time to cook the chicken again. Coat the chicken with the sauce
- Close the lid, reduce the heat, and cook the chicken for 30 minutes on low heat, ocassionally flip the chicken.
- Add the water, chilli, and tomato. Don’t forget to taste, you might need to add more salt. Sprinkle the cilantro and cook again for 5-10 minutes until the chicken is perfectly browned
- Enjoy the chicken!
All have their merits, but a Soy Sauce Chicken done right is tough to beat. Sweet soy sauce (Indonesian: kecap manis) is a sweetened aromatic soy sauce, originating in Indonesia, which has a darker color, a viscous syrupy consistency and a molasses-like flavor due to the generous addition of palm sugar. Kecap manis is widely used with satay. Soy sauce - a splash of soy sauce adds some complexity. Garlic - freshly minced adds the best flavor, but garlic powder will work in a pinch.
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