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Ginger Chicken

Ginger Chicken
Chef's Armoury
Recipe By: 
Chef's Armoury
www.chefsarmoury.com [1]
Marinate: 
10 minutes
Prep Time: 
10 minutes
Cook Time: 
15 minutes
Serves: 
2

Ginger Chicken

Ingredients

  • 2 chicken thighs
  • small nob of ginger finely sliced
  • 2 tsp shoyu - Japanese soy sauce (available from Chef's Armoury)
  • 2 tsp cooking sake or ryorishu (available from Chef's Armoury)
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • mirin (available from Chef's Armoury)
  • vegetable oil
  • 150ml chicken stock or water


Method

  1. In a bowl add 1 tsp sugar, 2 tsp soy sauce, 2 tsp cooking sake, half the ginger & a splash of water. Mix
  2. Chop chicken thighs into bite sized pieces, add the chicken to the bowl & mix well with the ginger marinade. Let rest 10 mins
  3. Heat up a cast iron pan on a medium heat, & add enough vegetable oil to lightly coat the pan
  4. Add remaining half of the chopped ginger & fry for half a minute
  5. Add the chicken (minus the liquid) to the cast iron pan and seal all sides of chicken lightly
  6. Add any remaining the marinade to the pan
  7. Deglaze the pan with mirin-add enough to coat the base of the pan
  8. After deglazing add 175ml water to the pan
  9. Simmer for 8 minutes, almost fully covered. Turn the heat down to low. Reduce liquid by 2/3
  10. Serve with steamed rice


Tips & Hints

  1. For fragrant ginger rice, fry some extra ginger slithers with the rice.

Links
[1] http://www.chefsarmoury.com/