Sunday 9 September 2012

Braised Red Dates Chicken (焖红枣鸡)

I've tasted this delicious dish at a friend's house cooked by her mum and I love it.  I did some variations to the ingredients use and hopefully you will like the taste of this dish as much as I do!


Serve 4
Ingredients:
1 small chicken (clean, chop into medium size pieces) - for health purposes, I've removed all the skin but you can leave it if you like)
12 Dried Black Mushroom (Soak, drain and leave aside)
12 Seedless Red Dates (Cut into Half)
200g Old Ginger (slice)
Big Black Fungus (Soak and cut into strips)
2 tbsp Light Soya Sauce
2 tbsp Dark Soya Sauce
10 tbsp Hua Tiao Wine
1 tsp Chicken Powder
1 tbsp Fish Sauce
800ml Water
Spring Onion to Garnish
  • Heat wok with 4 tbsp oil and add in garlic and fry till fragrant. 
  • Ad in onion and stir fry till well mix.  Add in mushroon, black fungus and stir well.
  • Add in Chicken and keep stirring.
  • Add light and dark soya, chicken poweder and stir well.
  • Pour in water and add in fish sauce and red dates.  Simmer till water absorded till slightly less than half.
  • dd in Hua Tiao Wine and stir well and turn off fire.
  • Sprinkle Spring Onion to garnish and serve with rice.

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