Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, sweet soy sauce chicken. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Sweet Soy Sauce Chicken is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Sweet Soy Sauce Chicken is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook sweet soy sauce chicken using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Sweet Soy Sauce Chicken:
- Prepare Half a chicken
- Get Juice of 1 small lime
- Prepare 2 tsp ground coriander (ketumbar)
- Prepare 2 tsp ground pepper
- Take 5 candlenut (kemiri)
- Get 5 garlic
- Get 6 shallot
- Take Half thumb sized ginger
- Take 1/4 large onion
- Get 1/2 large tomato
- Take 2 bay leaf (daun salam)
- Get 2 cayenne pepper (cabai rawit)
- Prepare Few sprigs of cilantro (daun ketumbar)
- Take 2 lemongrass
- Take 200 ml soy sauce (12-15 tbsp)
- Get 500 ml vegetable/frying oil
- Take 100 ml water
The chicken comes out flavorful with a sweet and tangy glaze. Serve with rice and steamed snow peas for a complete meal. Deep fried chicken pieces tossed in sweet soy sauce. Soy Sauce Chicken or "See Yao Gai" is a quintessential Cantonese favorite, found hanging under heat lamps in many Chinatown restaurant windows.
Instructions 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!
You'll find it near the poached chickens, roast ducks, and roast pork. All have their merits, but a Soy Sauce Chicken done right is tough to beat. Bring to a boil and cook until sauce is slightly reduced and thickened. Soy sauce chicken is one of the most common dishes in Cantonese cuisine. In fact, it became so popular that many manufacturers even introduced a quality "Soy Chicken Sauce" which, once diluted with water, can be used directly in cooking soy sauce chicken.
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