Thursday, September 29, 2011

Japanese Style Chicken in a Pot [日式雞煲]

This is one of my husband's favorite dishes. It never has any leftover no matter how much I make.

Ingredients:
1lb Chicken meat (I prefer chicken legs/thighs)
250ml Dashi (1 cup)
1Tbsp Sugar
2 Tbsp Sake
4 Tbsp Mirin
4 Tbsp Soy sauce
Some green onions
A little bit of Wasabi
  1. Pat chicken meat lightly with corn starch. Discard any excess starch.
  2. Finely chop green onions.
  3. Combine dashi, sugar, sake, mirin and soy sauce in a pot and bring to boil. Add chicken, and cook for about 5 - 6 min. Turn the meat occasionally.
  4. Remove from heat. Add chopped green onions and wasabi on top.
Note:
  1. Mirin is a sweet cooking wine. Usually, it consists of 40-50% of sugar. It is a kind of rice wine similar to sake but with a lower alcohol content, which is 14% instead of 20%.
  2. Dashi ( だし) is a Japanese basic stock. Many of Japanese recipes call for dashi, such as miso soup, noodle broth and simmered dishes. Dashi gives Japanese dishes their authentic flavor.
  3. The aroma of this dish is so strong that It makes my house smell like a Japanese restaurant.

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