Wineshark Home Cooking - Five-Cup Chicken 五杯豉油雞

Ingredients (for 4):

• Chicken - 1
• Shallot - 2
• Ginger slices - 6 
• Shaoxing wine - 100ml
• Water - 100ml
• Soy sauce - 100ml
• Slab sugar - 1
• Rock sugar - 2
• Matured vinegar - 100ml

Procedures:

1. Soak the chicken in brine for 30 minutes. Rinse and drip dry.

2. Cut the ginger into slices, and cut the shallot in quarters.

3. Heat the wok with oil, then turn to low heat and sear the chicken on both sides for a while.

4. Add in Shaoxing wine, water, and soy sauce. Turn up to high heat.

5. Add in ginger and shallot, slab sugar and rock sugar. 

6. Add in the matured vinegar. Once boiling, turn to low heat. 

7. Continue to cook for 50 minutes, repeatedly turning the chicken over and scooping the sauce onto the chicken.

8. Turn to high heat again, pour the condensed sauce on the chicken.

9. Cut the chicken into pieces to serve.