Simple Recipe - Soy Sauce Chicken (Si Yau Gai)

There is quite a number of version of Soy Sauce Chicken, but to ensure my family will not be boring with what I cook, I gotta be innovative at time.

You can use fresh chicken or roast chicken for this dish.

Ingredients

8 chicken drumsticks/whole chicken

8 cups of water

Aromatics needed:

6 piece of slice ginger

1 whole garlic

2 stalks spring onion

3 to 4 star anise

2 cinnamon stock

6 whole shallots

Sauce Mixture 

1 cup soy sauce

1 1/4 cup dark soy sauce

1 cup rock sugar

1/2 cup Chinese cooking wine

1 tsp five spice powder

 

Steps

Stir fry all aromatics, add water in, add sauce mixture, bring to boil, add chicken and boil for 20 to 25 mins or till chicken in cooked. Done!