Háo Yóu Mèn Jī - 蚝油焖鸡
chicken in oyster sauce
Ingredients:
6 chicken thighs (900 g)
11 cloves of garlic
7 cm jahe
2 tbsp oyster sauce
2 tbsp Shaoxing rice wine
1 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tbsp dark soy sauce
1 tsp palm sugar
1/2 tsp white pepper
5 dried lomboks
1 spring onion
250 ml hot water
1 tbsp oil
Preparation:
Cut the jahe into thin slices. Finely chop the spring onion. Heat the oil in a pan and add the chicken, garlic and jahe and fry over medium heat until golden brown.
Mix the water with the oyster sauce, rice wine, soy sauces, palm sugar, pepper and lomboks. Add it to the chicken. Then cover the pan and simmer/braise for 25 minutes.
Then remove the cover and let the sauce thicken over high heat. Sprinkle the spring onion over the chicken and serve.