Chinese Chicken Stew With Chestnuts
Chinese Chicken Stew With Chestnuts

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Chinese Chicken Stew With Chestnuts is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Chinese Chicken Stew With Chestnuts is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

Chinese Chicken Stew with Chestnuts and Mushrooms. Tastes authentic and relatively easy to make. I don't always have chestnuts on hand so I'll throw in some carrots for vegetable in take.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have chinese chicken stew with chestnuts using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chinese Chicken Stew With Chestnuts:
  1. Get 350 g Chicken
  2. Get Marinade;
  3. Prepare 1 Tbsp Soy Sauce
  4. Make ready 1 Tbsp Cooking Oil
  5. Take 20 g Ginger (chopped roughly)
  6. Take For Braising;
  7. Prepare 20 g Ginger (chopped roughly)
  8. Take 20 g Garlic (chopped roughly)
  9. Take 2 Tbsp Cooking Oil
  10. Make ready 3 Tbsp Soy Sauce
  11. Make ready 100 g Shitake Mushrooms (halved)
  12. Get 100 g Roasted and Peeled Chestnuts
  13. Take 1 cup Chicken Stock
  14. Prepare 1 stalk Spring Onions (chopped roughly)
  15. Prepare 2 Tbsp Palm Sugar (or Honey/White Sugar)
  16. Get Garnish;
  17. Prepare 1 stalk Spring Onion (finely chopped)

Chinese Braised Chicken with Chestnutsis a tradition Chinese recipe that is pure comfort food. I've been thinking of what dishes I'm going to make for my family, and this Chinese Braised Chicken with Chestnuts is a dish that's been on my mind recently. As I saw some chestnuts in the season, and happen to have some really huge shitake mushrooms, I stewed them with some bone-in chicken thigh for an hour. And gosh, it was sooo sooo good that I finished my rice entirely with this one pot dish.

Instructions to make Chinese Chicken Stew With Chestnuts:
  1. Marinade the chicken in soy sauce, Ginger and oil for 30 minutes minimum.
  2. When ready, heat 3 Tbsp of oil until hot and fry the ginger and spring onions until fragrant. Then add the chicken and cook until brown all over.
  3. Then add the chicken stock, chestnuts, mushrooms, palm sugar and mix well. Cook them on medium to low heat and cover with a lid for 15 to 20 minutes. Check and stir the stew every 5 or 10 minutes.
  4. After 20 minutes, remove the lid and cover time to cook until the sauce has reduce to half it's original volume. Check the doneness of the chicken and the taste of the stew.
  5. Serve in a soup plate and garnish with spring onions.
  6. NOTE; if you are using dried chestnuts, you'll need to soak them overnight and then cook them the next day.
  7. Steam it for 20 to 30 minutes. Some people put sugar at the 20 minute mark; I don't think it's necessary but you can do it too.

I used to blanch the chicken parts in boiling water before the stew to get rid of all the impurities. Retired Chef Cook Fai Lee, show you how to make this yummy sweet chicken stew with crunchy chestnuts. In Shanghai , China , this is one of their locals favorite. A traditional Chinese chicken stew recipe. Chicken is simmered with straw mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms and chestnuts in a delicious sauce.

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