An Inexpensive Way to Impress and Feed Your Guests:Spicy Chicken Ginger and Jasmine Rice

Name: An Inexpensive Way to Impress and Feed Your Guests: Spicy Chicken Ginger and Jasmine Rice
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3 medium chicken thighs; 1/2 cup soy sauce; 1/4 cup brown sugar; 1/4 cup Mirin; 1/2 cup water; 6 thin slices of ginger; 4 crushed cloves of garlic; 3 small Thai chili (optional); 1 hour of cooking

2choi @cook_15339344

I watched this food show (I have watched so many that I don’t remember which show it was) in which the Chef first dipped a chicken in boiling water and then shocked it in ice water. The skin of the chicken looked tight and firm. I liked the look of it. So I am applying that technique in this recipe. It came out the way I expected it to be.

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Ingredients

3medium chicken thighs
1/2 cupsoy sauce
1/4 cupbrown sugar
1/4 cupMirin
1/2 cupwater
6thin slices of ginger
4crushed cloves of garlic
3small Thai chili (optional)
1hour of cooking

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Steps

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Boil some water. Slightly cook the chicken thighs for 30 seconds.
2

Remove chicken. Put in ice water to stop cooking process.
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In a pot or wok, put soy sauce, Mirin, sugar, water, ginger slices and garlic with a little bit of black pepper.
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Boil the sauce. As soon as it boils, put the chicken in, skin side up. Let it boil for 30 seconds. Turn heat to medium low. With a ladle keep pouring the sauce over the skin for about ten times. Adjust the heat to simmer. Go back and use the ladle to pour the sauce over the chicken now and then.
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Keep doing this for an hour until the sauce is reduced to about half.
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Remove chicken and other ingredients to serving plate. Boil the sauce on medium low. Dissolve 1/2 tsp of potato starch with some water. When the sauce is boiled, add slowly some potato starch water in to thicken the sauce. Stop when you get the desired consistency. This is to glaze the chicken and give it a shiny coat. Also the sauce will add more flavor to the Jasmine rice.
7

Any salad with an Asian style dressing will go well with this dish.
8

The skin of the chicken looks just like the BBQ chickens sold at a Chinese BBQ stores.
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Enjoy!