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Monday, December 26, 2005

Chicken Stew

3 chicken thigh meat
2 to 3 onions (if onion is big use 2)
2 tsp chopped garlics
1 tbs minced ginger
1 tsp salt
some pepper
2 and a half cup chicken broth
2 potatoes
2 carrots
2 stalk celery
oil for frying
1 and half tsp soy sauce
1 tsp dark soy sauce

*optional ingredients :
mushrooms, tomatoes, etc.
  1. Cut chicken into small and medium pieces, remove bones, and marinate with 1 tbs of cornstarch, pepper and 2 tsp soy sauce. Set aside.
  2. Prepare the vegetables, cut potatoes, carrots and celery into small pieces or cubes.
  3. Heat wok and fry onion, ginger and garlics till fragrant. Add chicken.
  4. Stir fry chicken for 1 or 2 min, add in dark soy sauce, and then add in potatoes, carrots and celery.
  5. Continue frying and add in chicken broth. Bring to boil.
  6. Broth shd cover almost all ingredients. Add in some water if necessary.
  7. If you want a thicker texture, can add in some cornstarch and water mixture here.
  8. Reduce fire to medium-small, cover and simmer till liquid almost dry up.
  9. Alternatively, you can also transfer to a slow cooker, so that you dun hv to keep watching fire...
  10. Njoy!

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

After tasting the chicken stew from Cocoa's church, I keep bugging her to cook it. She looked up a few American-based websites for the recipe, mixed and matched the ingredients from various recipes cos each of them seemed incomplete, and the dish turned out heavenly! In fact, when she's cooking the stew, the aroma triggered a grumble in my stomach and woke me up from my nap.

It's extremely important to include the celery in the stew. It enriches the stew's gravy so much so that you would want another refill. In Hokkien, it simply means jia3 bui3 sian3 or ho2 jia3 ga4 chud4 bin3.

Overall rating: 10/10 (without celery), and 20/10 (with celery)! Best dish of the century!

3:47 PM  
Blogger EverlastingFriend ♥ said...

how long does it takes?

5:48 AM  
Blogger Cocoa said...

45 min to one hour cooking on stove top, longer if using slow cooker.

8:38 AM  

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