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Braised Chicken with Potatoes
A Complete Guide to Braised Chicken with Potatoes for Beginners! Detailed, easy-to-follow cooking steps and meticulous heat control to ensure success on your first try!
INGREDIENTS
Main Ingredients
- ·Half a chicken (about 300g)
- ·1 potato (about 200g)
Additional Ingredients
- ·1 green pepper
- ·1 red pepper
- ·20g garlic leaves
- ·10g ginger slices
- ·20g white onion
Seasonings
- ·5ml cooking wine
- ·5ml soy sauce
- ·5ml dark soy sauce
- ·3g sugar
- ·2 star anise
- ·5g Sichuan peppercorns
- ·A little pepper powder
- ·5ml cornstarch
- ·10g oyster sauce
- ·A few drops sesame oil
- ·Appropriate amount oil
DIRECTIONS
Step 1
First, remove the seeds from 1 green pepper and 1 red pepper, and cut them into slices.
Step 2
Cut 20g of garlic leaves into 2cm sections, and cut 20g of white onion into sections.
Step 3
Peel 1 potato and cut it into chunks.
Step 4
Chop half a chicken into pieces and put them in a bowl.
Step 5
Add 3g of salt, 3g of sugar, 5ml of cooking wine, 5ml of soy sauce, and a little pepper powder to the chicken pieces, and mix well.
Step 6
Add 5ml of cornstarch, mix it in, and marinate for 5 minutes.
Step 7
Heat oil in a pan until it's 80% hot, and fry the potato chunks until the edges are golden brown, then take them out and set aside.
Step 8
Next, fry the marinated chicken pieces in the same pan until they are 40% cooked and their color turns lighter, then take them out.
Step 9
Leave some oil in the pan, and add 10g of ginger slices, 10g of garlic slices, 2 star anise, and 5g of Sichuan peppercorns, and sauté until fragrant.
Step 10
Put the chicken pieces back into the pan and stir-fry for a while.
Step 11
Add 10ml of cooking wine, 10ml of soy sauce, 5ml of dark soy sauce, and 10g of oyster sauce, and stir-fry until fragrant.
Step 12
Add the fried potato chunks, stir evenly, add an appropriate amount of water (just enough to cover the ingredients), cover the pot, and simmer for 8 minutes.
Step 13
When the water reduces, add the garlic leaves, green pepper, and red pepper, and continue stir-frying.
Step 14
Finally, add a few drops of sesame oil for flavor, a little oil for color, and cook until the sauce thickens before serving.