Soy Sauce Chicken 豉油雞

Ingredients (for 4):

• Chicken - 1
• Soy sauce - 2/3 cup
• Spring onion - 3 sprigs
• Ginger - 30 g
• Rock sugar - 100 g
• Star anise - 2
• Water - 2 cups
• Dark soy sauce - 3 tsp
• Chinese yellow wine - 1 tsp

Procedures:

1. Mix the dark soy sauce and Chinese yellow wine together.

2. Wash the chicken thoroughly, then drip dry. Then brush the sauce evenly on the skin and insides of the chicken. Marinate for 2 hours.

3. Peel the ginger and cut into slices. Cut the spring onion into two sections.

4. Heat the wok to low-medium temperature, then add the oil into the wok and cook the chicken for a short while until the skin tightens. Remove from the wok.

5. Cook the ginger and spring onion with a bit of oil until fragrant. Then stuff the ginger and spring onion into the chicken. 

6. Boil the soy sauce with rock sugar and star anise. Then add the two cups of water. Stir well until the rock sugar dissolved.

7. When the sauce is boiling, put the chicken in, with the side of the thigh down, and cook for 12-15 minutes. Repeatedly pour the sauce on top of the chicken during the process. Repeat the process with the other side of the chicken and cook for 12-15 minutes. Then cook the back side of the chicken for the same process.

8. Remove the chicken and let it cool down. Then remove the spring onion and ginger. Chop into pieces to serve.