Chinese Chicken Recipes - Soy Sauce Chicken  Recipe

Ingredients

• 300 ml/1 1/4 cups soy sauce

• 300 ml/1 1/4 cups rice wine or dry sherry

• 1 onion, chopped

• 3 slices root ginger, minced

• 50 g/2 oz/1/4 cup sugar

• 1 chicken

• 15 ml/1 tbsp corn-flour (cornstarch)

• 60 ml/4 tbsp water

• 1 cucumber, peeled and sliced

• 30 ml/2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley

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Method:

1. Mix together the soy sauce, wine or sherry, onion, ginger and sugar in a pan and bring to the boil.

2. Add the chicken, return to the boil, cover and simmer gently for 1 hour, turning the chicken occasionally, until the chicken is cooked.

3. Transfer the chicken to a warmed serving plate and carve. Pour out all but 250 ml/8 fl oz/1 cup of the cooking liquid and bring it back to the boil.

4. Blend the corn-flour and water to a paste, stir it into the pan and simmer, stirring, until the sauce clears and thickens.

5. Brush a little of the sauce over the chicken and garnish the chicken with cucumber and parsley. Serve the remaining sauce separately.