Grampa'S Asian Chicken With His Secret Sauce
- One whole chicken fryer, cut in half
- Salt
- Pepper
- 2 Tablespoon grape seed oil (or any oil with high smoking point)
- 1 green onion (cut white and green parts into diagonal 1/2" slices)
- 4 coin-sized slices of ginger
- Sauce:
- 1 cup of water
- 2 Tablespoon soya sauce
- 2 Tablespoon oyster sauce
- 2 Tablespoon scotch/whisky
- 2 Tablespoon Corn starch mixed with 2 Tablespoon of cold water
- 1) Cut chicken in half and salt and pepper the chicken to taste.
- 2) Heat 1 Tbsp. oil in large non-stick skillet until oil is hot (near smoking point).
- 3) Add ginger slices and green onion pieces to oil and fry until golden (less than 1 minute, stirring constantly to avoid burning)
- 4) Add another 1 Tbsp. oil to pan and allow to oil to heat up.
- 5) Add the chicken halves to pan, skin-side down
- 5) Sear chicken skin until golden brown (using tongs, turn chicken over carefully to make sure the browned skin is not damaged). Turn down the heat to medium.
- 5) Mix the soya sauce, oyster sauce and whisky into the 1 cup of water
- 6) Pour this sauce mixture into the pan and cover pan with lid.
- 7) Cook chicken for 15 - 20 minutes until chicken to cooked (test by poking the thickest part of the chicken thighs to make sure juices are clear, not pink).
- 8) Take chicken halves out of pan and allow to cool in serving platter.
- 9) Turn up temperature to high and stir in corn starch mixture to sauce in pan, stirring constantly to ensure smooth gravy consistency of sauce, adding a little more water if sauce becomes too thick. Take off heating element.
- 10) Cut chicken into serving pieces and arrange on platter. Pour gravy on top of the chicken and serve. If there is extra gravy, put in gravy bowl.
- 11) Serve with hot rice and stir-fried asian vegetables.
chicken fryer, salt, pepper, grape seed oil, green onion, ginger, water, soya sauce, oyster sauce, scotch, mixed
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/grampas-asian-chicken-with-his-secret-sauce-50086971 (may not work)