See You Gai (Red Cooked Chicken)

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Servings: 6 Difficulty: Advanced
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Chinese-style sweet and satisfying dessert that brings home-style flavor to your table
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See You Gai (Red Cooked Chicken)

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Difficulty: Advanced
Servings: 6 Calories: 1009.4

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This Chinese dessert features Roasting chicken, Cold water, Dark soy sauce, Chinese wine or dry sherry, Piece fresh ginger. It delivers hearty, protein-packed satisfaction. A wonderful way to end any meal, especially on special occasions. Simple to make with ingredients you likely already have on hand, this is a recipe you will come back to again and again.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. peeled and sliced 1 Clove garlic 10 Sections star anise 1 1/2 tb Sugar 2 ts Sesame oil Here is the second chicken recipe from a really comprehensive and beautiful cookbook, THE COMPLETE ASIAN COOKBOOK by Charmaine Solomon.
  2. "Red cooking" is the term applied to cooking in dark soy sauce.
  3. The liquid that remains after cooking is called a "master sauce", and can be frozen or refrigerated for future use.
  4. It should be used to
  5. cook meat or poultry at least once a week to keep it "alive."
  6. Cook chicken drumsticks this way for taking on picnics or serving at buffet parties.
  7. Fragrant with ginger and anise, red-cooked chicken will surely become one of your favorites.
  8. Choose a saucepan into which chicken will just fit so that the soy liquid covers as much of the bird as possible.
  9. Put chicken into saucepan, breast down, then add all the ingredients except sesame oil.
  10. Bring slowly to the boil, then reduce heat, cover and simmer very gently for 15 minutes.
  11. Using tongs, turn chicken over, replace lid and
  12. simmer 20 minutes, basting breast with liquid every 5 minutes.
  13. Remove from heat and leave covered in the saucepan until cool.
  14. Lift chicken out of sauce, put on a serving platter and brush with sesame oil.
  15. This gives the chicken a glistening appearance as well as some extra flavor.
  16. Traditionally the chicken is put on a chopping board and cut in two lengthways with a sharp cleaver.
  17. Each half is chopped into 1 1/2 inch strips and reassembled in the original shape.
  18. If this proves too much of an undertaking, simply carve the chicken into joints.
  19. Serve at room temperature with some of the cooking liquid as a dipping sauce

Nutrition Facts

Servings 6

Amount Per Serving
Calories 1009.4kcal
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 47.9g74%
Saturated Fat 13.2g66%
Cholesterol 353.6mg118%
Sodium 5399.6mg225%
Total Carbohydrate 4.8g2%
Dietary Fiber 0.7g3%
Sugars 0.8g
Protein 114.6g230%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily value may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

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