Sunday, February 20, 2011

Braised Red Dates Chicken

I've once tasted this delicious dishes cooked by a friend's mum and I loved it.  I did some variations to the ingredient used and hopefully you will like the taste of this dish as much as I do!



Ingredients required:

1 Small Chicken (clean and chop into medium sizes pieces) - for health purposes, I've removed all the skin but you can keep it if you like!

12 Dried Black Mushroom (Soak)
12 Seedless Red Dates (cut into half)
200g Old Ginger (Shred thinly)
3 Big Onions (Cut into small chucks)
Some Big Black Fungus (Soak and cut into thick strips)
2 tbsp Light Soya Sauce
2 tbsp Dark Soya Sauce
10 tbsp Hua Tiao Wine
1 tsp Chicken Powder
1 tbsp Fish Sauce
800 ml water
Spring Onion to garmish

1) Staute Ginger in wok with 4 tbsp oil till fragrant and add in onion and stir fry till well mix.
2) Add in Mushroom, Black Fungus and stir well.
3) Add in Chicken and stir well.
4) Add in Light Soya, Dark Soya, Chicken Powder and stir well.
5) Pour in water and add in Fish sauce and Red Dates and simmer chicken till water absorded till slightly more than half.
6)  Add in Hua Tiao Wine and stir well and turn off fire.
7) Sprinkle Spring Onion to garnish and serve with rice.

The flavour was superd!!  Enjoy!

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