Food

Slow Cooker Chicken With Soy And Sesame

August 28, 2020

Yield
Serves 4
Prep Time
5mins
Cook Time
400mins
Difficulty Level
3 / 5

Indulge in a light yet flavourful chicken swimming in soy and sesame that’s at once refreshing and nostalgic. Its ingredients of various spices and condiments will make the scouring worth it, considering you don’t have to spend much time to watch over the dish at all!

Ingredients

Steps

01.
Remove excess fat from chicken. Place chicken in a 4.5 litre (18 cup) slow cooker. Add sliced ginger, halved garlic, star anise, cinnamon, sauce, wine, sugar and the water. Cook, covered, on low, 6 hrs. Carefully transfer chicken to a chopping board. Reserve ¾ cup of the poaching liquid; discard the remainder.
02.
Cut chicken into 12 pieces; place on a platter. Drizzle extra sauce, sesame oil and reserved poaching liquid over chicken.
03.

Heat peanut oil in a small saucepan, over medium heat, until very hot; taking care as mixture will spatter, add garlic and ginger matchsticks. Immediately spoon hot oil mixture over chicken. Sprinkle with chilli, onion and coriander.

TIP You can use ½ cup dry sherry with ½ cup water instead of the Chinese cooking wine. This dish is suitable to freeze at the end of step 1.

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