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Shao-hsing Chicken Roll
Serves 4
Easy
Total time:
Cook time less than 30 minutes but plus 4 hours marinating time and 1 hour refrigerate time
a simple recipe for marinated chicken thighs in Shao-hsing wine served as a cold platter
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ingredients for 4 people
- 4 chicken thighs, deboned but with skin on
- 2 spring onions, roughly chopped
- 4 slices of ginger
- 2 cloves of garlic, roughly chopped
- 50ml of Shao-hsing wine
- salt
Extra 1 spring onion, shredded long-ways for garnish
- Extra 1 spring onion, shredded long-ways for garnish
Method
step 1
Prepare the marinate sauce by mixing well spring onions, ginger, garlic, and Shao-hsing wine. Then, salt to taste.step 2
Marinate the deboned thighs overnight or at least 4 hours. The longer, the better. Chicken thighs, then, can absorb the fragrance of both herbs and Shao-hsing wine.step 3
Drain chicken thighs. Then wrap them tight in a slice of big square cling film. Fix the chicken thighs in the shape of rolls with rubber bands.step 4
Steam or poach the chicken rolls with boiling water for around 12 minutes and immediately put them into iced cold water to stop them cooking.step 5
When cool, drain the chicken rolls from iced water and refrigerate them for at least 1 hour before serving.step 6
Take off the cling film and slice the chicken rolls. Meanwhile, heat the Shao-hsing marinate in a small saucepan.step 7
Plate up and pour heated marinate on sliced Shao-hsing chicken rolls; garnish with some shredded spring onions. Done.
