Nonya pot-braised chicken

Name: Nonya pot-braised chicken
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Singaporean
Ingredients: salt; 1 small chicken, spatchcocked; 4 tbsp Chinese rice wine; 4 tbsp dark soy sauce; vegetable oil; 1 tbsp caster sugar; 3 cm piece fresh root ginger, peeled and shredded; 4 shallots, chopped; 2 cloves garlic, crushed; 2 hot red chillies; 4 young leeks or 4 large spring onions, shredded and washed; 4 young leeks or 4 large spring onions, shredded and washed

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Food and Travels

By Alastair Hendy

Published 2004

About

One to bung in the oven and then forget about. Well almost...

Ingredients

1 small chicken, spatchcocked
salt
4 tbsp dark soy sauce
4

Asia
Singapore
Main course
South East Asia

Method

Rub the chicken with salt then pop in a strong bag (a freezer-type one), with the soy sauce, rice wine and sugar. Rub everything in by massaging the bag on the bird, and leave to bathe for a few hours or so. Remove the bird and its marinade from the bag, keeping all the juices to one side, then carefully fry all over in 2