Easy dish that everyone will definitely enjoy.
Braised soy sauce chicken, together with wanton noodles and pickled chilli. I added shrimp dumplings and balanced off with blanched vegetables.
Ingredients:
- 5 chicken drumstick
- 100g chye sim or your preferred vegetables (chinese mustard leaves)
- 1pkt wanton egg noodles (there’s 5 portions in there)
- Pickle sliced green chillies
Braising sauce:
- 1 bulb garlic, cut half
- 6 slices ginger
- 80g spring onions, cut 3 sections
- 1.5 litres water
- ½ cup rice wine
- ½ cup dark soy sauce
- ½ cup light soy sauce
- 3 tablespoon brown sugar or 40g rock sugar
- 1 tsp five spice powder
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 2 star anise
Instructions
1. Add to pot 1.5 litres water and all ingredients for braising sauce.
2. Bring to boil. Once boiling, add in 5 chicken drumsticks
3. Cover and let it simmer for 45 minutes
4. Remove chicken from sauce and set aside
5. Blanch the vegetables for 1 minute, drain and set aside. You can divide them equally to 5 set aside
6. Boil the noodles according the the packaging instructions
7. Drain and soak in cold water 10 seconds and return to boiling water for a quick dip. Drain and transfer to serving plate
8. Add 1 tsp sesame oil and 4 tbsp braising sauce to noodles, mix well and add blanched vegetables
9. Chop chicken thighs into serving portions and add to noodle
10. Serve noodle with pickled green chillies
The noodles I used which can be found at local supermarket