Recipe: Tasty Cantonese-Style Soy Chicken with Noodles

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Cantonese-Style Soy Chicken with Noodles. Great recipe for Cantonese-Style Soy Chicken with Noodles. The more famous version of Chinese Soy Chicken is the Cantonese variety that is eaten as part of Chicken Rice and/or Yellow Noodles. It is sweeter and requires Chinese Rose Wine, or even Shaoxing Wine.

SCORE; if you are using chicken breast, score the underside of the chicken and poke a few holes through the middle of the thickest part.

This will help the marination and ensure an even cooking.

MARINADE; Rub the chicken with Ginger, Spring Onion (white part) and Sugar.

You can cook Cantonese-Style Soy Chicken with Noodles using 20 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Cantonese-Style Soy Chicken with Noodles

Prepare 350 g of Chicken Meat (with skin, boneless).
It’s as needed of Sesame Oil (for glazing).
It’s 300 g of Yellow Noodles (blanched, cooled and ready to use).
Prepare 200 g of Kai Lan (stem removed, blanched, ready to serve).
It’s 2 pc of Fresh Red Chillies (slice thinly, garnish).
It’s 20 g of Spring Onions (green part, slice thinly, garnish).
Prepare 1 pc of Japanese Cucumber (slice thinly).
You need of Marinate (rub the chicken with these);.
You need 4 Tbsp of Sugar/Rock Sugar.
It’s 40 g of Ginger (minced).
You need 20 g of Spring Onions (white part, minced).
It’s of Stewing Liquid (mix well in a pot);.
Prepare 1/2 cup of Light Soy Sauce.
Prepare 1/2 cup of Dark Soy Sauce.
You need 2 Tbsp of Rice Vinegar (unnecesary really).
Prepare 20 g of Spring Onions (green part, rough chop).
You need 1 stick of Cinnamon.
Prepare 2 pc of Bay Leaves.
Prepare 3 pc of Star Anise.
It’s 4 pc of Cloves.

Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Cantonese-Style Soy Chicken with Noodles.

Prepare as needed of Sesame Oil (for glazing).

Soy sauce chicken, also known as See Yao Gai/豉油鸡 in Cantonese, is a classic dish loved by many.

Cantonese-Style Soy Chicken with Noodles step by step

SCORE; if you are using chicken breast, score the underside of the chicken and poke a few holes through the middle of the thickest part. This will help the marination and ensure an even cooking..
MARINADE; Rub the chicken with Ginger, Spring Onion (white part) and Sugar. In a pot mix together the Stewing Liquid and add the chicken skin-side up. Let it sit in room temperature for 30-45 minutes..
POACHING; after 45 minutes, start cooking the pot by heating it up to a simmer or a gentle boil (not rolling boil). Cover with a lid and let the chicken cook for 8-10 minutes. After that, flip the chicken skin-side down and cook for 1-2 minutes..
REST - after that, remove the chicken from the pot and let it rest for 10 minutes. Brush the chicken with Sesame Oil before cutting it into serving size..
BOIL THE STEW; continue to cook the Stewing Liquid on a rolling boil for 5-10 minutes. The Stewing Liquid can be used as a sauce for the Noodles and Kai Lan.
SERVE; cut the chicken into serving pieces and serve on a plate. In a bowl, mix in 150g of Noodles and 2 to 3 Tbsp of the Stewing Liquid. Place it next to the chicken and garnish with sliced Red Chillies and Spring Onions (green part). Place the Kai Lan onto the plate and drizzle the Stewing Liquid on top. Serve the sliced cucumbers next to it..

Essentially, it's whole chicken braised in a soy sauce flavoured broth which provides a strong aromatic.

Cantonese chicken with mushrooms is a semi dry preparation.  A beautiful balance of flavour with loads of garlic and blend of sauces makes this dish a perfect starter or top it on plain boiled noodles and enjoy it.

For authentic flavours use sesame oil, rice wine vinegar, soy, fish, oyster sauce.

You could use button mushrooms or even oyster mushrooms if available.  Cantonese style.

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