Cola Chicken Wings Chinese
Tired of greasy dishes? Cola Chicken Wings are coming refreshingly. The addition of cola reduces the greasiness of the chicken wings and adds a touch of freshness and sweetness. Come and make it with me quickly.
Required Ingredients and Substitutes
Main Ingredients
Chicken Wings: As the core ingredient, it has extremely tender meat. It is smooth and juicy when eaten, and is the mainstay of delicious taste.
Auxiliary Ingredients
Red Onion: With strong unique onion fragrance, it can cleverly improve the flavor hierarchy of the dish after being added.
Ginger: Its mission is to remove the fishy smell inherent in chicken wings and make the fragrance purer.
Garlic: It has strong and mellow garlic fragrance. When integrated into the dish, it can stimulate the taste buds and elevate it.
Dried Chili Pepper: Appropriate addition of spiciness breaks the dullness and meets the diverse taste pursuit of diners.
Green Onion: It simply adds fragrance, making the whole dish full of fragrance and instantly arousing appetite.
Seasonings
White Sugar: Used for making sugar color, giving the chicken wings an attractive luster and a sweet taste.
Soy Sauce: Having the functions of seasoning and color adjustment, it perfectly highlights the original flavor of chicken wings.
Cooking Wine: It can be regarded as a powerful de-fishy ingredient, helping the chicken wings have pure taste without miscellaneous smell.
Barbecue Sauce: When added, it enriches the taste in an instant and brings a unique soy sauce flavor.
Salt: Precisely controls the saltiness and strongly highlights the original flavor characteristics of the ingredients.
Cola: After pouring it in, it gives the dish a unique sweetness and makes the flavor more diverse.
Olive Oil: Sprinkle it gently before taking out of the pan to make the appearance of the dish bright and the appearance value soar.
Substitutes
Chicken Wings: Chicken legs can be used as a replacement. They have more meat and a firm taste. The delicious taste is not discounted.
Red Onion: Onion is an excellent choice. It has prominent sweetness and unique fragrance, adding color and charm.
Dried Chili Pepper: Chili sauce is better. The spiciness is evenly integrated, giving a strong sense of stimulation.
White Sugar: Rock sugar and white granulated sugar are both acceptable. They are used for making sugar color and have the same effect.
Cooking Wine: Baijiu (Chinese liquor) and Huadiao wine are similar. They have strong de-fishy effect, and the flavors of the liquor are different.
Barbecue Sauce: Sweet bean sauce and broad bean paste are okay. They have strong soy sauce fragrance and a unique flavor.
Cola: Sprite, Fanta, etc. can be used as substitutes. They change the flavor and bring a new experience.
Olive Oil: Corn oil and sunflower seed oil can be used as substitutes. They keep the color bright and are rich in nutrition.
What are the characteristic flavors of this dish?
It's especially sweet: Cola is cooked into the chicken wings. The sweetness is not ordinary. It has a hint of caramel fragrance. When you eat it, you feel that the taste is very mellow. It matches the chicken wings very well and immediately raises the level of taste.
It has a strong sauce flavor: Light soy sauce and barbecue sauce are mixed together and slowly seep into the chicken wings. When you take a bite, the whole mouth is filled with a strong sauce fragrance. The taste is quite strong and very pleasing.
It has a little spiciness: A few dried chili peppers are put in. The spiciness is not strong. It just can stimulate the tongue. Adding a little heat and spiciness between the sweetness and the sauce flavor makes it more appetizing when eaten.
It has rich fragrance: Ginger, scallion, garlic and red shallot are fried in oil. All the fragrances come out. When cooked, they enter the chicken wings. They remove the fishy smell of the chicken wings and add several kinds of fragrances. It smells fragrant and tastes fragrant when eaten.
It's tender and juicy: The chicken wings are blanched first and then braised. The heat is controlled properly. The juice inside is retained. It has a little charred fragrance on the outside and is very tender inside. The chicken and the sauce are mixed together. The taste is excellent.
What to do if there is not enough water during the braising process?
If there is not enough water during braising, add some boiling water in time. Don't add cold water. Otherwise, the temperature in the pot will drop suddenly and the chicken wings will not be easy to cook soft.
When adding water, add a little each time. Just cover the chicken wings. Don't pour too much at once. Otherwise, it will take a long time to reduce the juice in the end and the taste of the chicken wings will be diluted.
If there is always a lack of water, it may be that the fire is too big. Turn the fire down a little and check whether the lid of the pot is tightly covered.
Can this dish be made in a pressure cooker?
A pressure cooker can be used to make cola chicken wings.
If using a pressure cooker, the time can be shortened to 10 to 15 minutes. After the pressure is released, if there is a lot of soup, open the lid and reduce the juice over medium heat to make the sauce thick and stick to the chicken wings. First add half of the cola when braising and add the other half when reducing the juice. This can retain more cola aroma.
However, although the pressure cooker saves time and gas, the taste is slightly worse than the traditional braising. Traditional slow stewing can make the seasonings penetrate into the chicken more fully and make it taste more flavorful. If you pursue the best taste, traditional braising is still better.
INGREDIENTS
Main Ingredients
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·8 chicken wings
Accessories
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·10g red onion
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·10g ginger
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·10g garlic
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·5-6 dried chili peppers
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·10g green onions
Seasonings
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·10g white sugar
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·5g soy sauce
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·10g cooking wine
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·5g barbecue sauce
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·2g salt
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·1 cup cola (240 ml)
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·A bit of olive oil
Table of Contents
- ·Required Ingredients and Substitutes
- ·What are the characteristic flavors of this dish?
- ·What to do if there is not enough water during the braising process?
- ·Can this dish be made in a pressure cooker?
- ·Ingredients
- ·Cooking step
- ·More recipes worth trying
- ·Recipe Variations
- ·Suggestions for Consumption
- ·FAQs
COOKING STEP
Step 1
Pour a pot of clean water into the pan and bring it to a boil.
Step 2
Put 8 chicken wings in and blanch for about 2 minutes.
Step 3
Heat the oil pan, put 10 grams of white sugar in and keep stirring until it melts completely.
Step 4
Pour the chicken wings into the pan and stir-fry.
Step 5
Put 10 grams of red shallots, 10 grams of ginger and 10 grams of garlic cloves which have been cut into pieces into the pan and continue to stir-fry.
Step 6
Stir-fry until one side of the chicken wings turns slightly golden yellow, and then put 5-6 dried chili peppers in and stir-fry.
Step 7
Add 5 grams of light soy sauce, 10 grams of cooking wine and 5 grams of barbecue sauce in turn and stir-fry evenly.
Step 8
Add an appropriate amount of water, and the amount of water should cover the middle part of the chicken wings. At the same time, add 2 grams of salt.
Step 9
Cover the pan, bring it to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and braise for about 20 minutes, and then reduce the juice over high heat.
Step 10
Pour 1 cup of cola into the pan, cover the pan and braise for 3-4 minutes.
Step 11
Boil until the soup becomes thick, and add 10 grams of scallion sections and stir-fry evenly.
Step 12
Before taking out of the pan, add an appropriate amount of olive oil to improve the color.
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Recipe Variations
Adding Fruits and Vegetables for More Color
When cooking cola chicken wings, add some carrot pieces. After cooking, it is sweet, soft and waxy, with bright color and increased nutrition. If you like sweet and sour taste, add a few pieces of hawthorn. The fruit fragrance integrates into the soup. When eaten, it is sweet and sour to stimulate the appetite. The taste of chicken wings is raised to a higher level, and there is no greasy feeling at all.
Changing Ingredients for More Fragrance
When heating the oil pan, use maltose to make sugar color. The chicken wings will have a brighter color and emit a unique sweet fragrance. Replace garlic with single-clove garlic. It has a strong taste. It is excellent at removing the fishy smell and adding fragrance, upgrading the flavor of chicken wings. When eaten, the fragrance overflows. The taste is more rich.
Changing the Method for Upgrading
After blanching the chicken wings, make small holes and then fry them to facilitate absorption of flavor. When braising, put them in an electric rice cooker. Press the rice cooking button and then keep warm and braise for a while. The operation is convenient. By using the characteristics of the electric rice cooker, the chicken wings are still tender and juicy, and a delicious dish can be easily made.
Suggestions for Consumption
Matching with Main Food: The taste of cola chicken wings is rich in sweet and salty. It is suitable to match with main foods such as rice and steamed bun. The soft and waxy rice can absorb the sauce of chicken wings. The steamed bun can dip in the soup of chicken wings to increase the richness of the taste.
Matching with Vegetable Salad: In order to balance the greasiness of cola chicken wings, you can match it with a refreshing vegetable salad. Such as vegetables like lettuce, cucumber and tomato, simply mix with olive oil and vinegar dressing. It can not only remove the greasiness, but also supplement vitamins and dietary fiber, making this meal more nutritious and balanced.
Temperature Consideration: The just-out-of-the-pan cola chicken wings are steaming hot. The outer skin is crispy and the inside is tender and juicy. It has the best taste. But if you like a more chewy taste, you can let it cool down a little before eating.
Portion Control: Cola chicken wings taste delicious and are easy to make people eat too much. But because it contains a certain amount of sugar and fat, it is recommended to eat it in an appropriate amount. Generally, it is appropriate for each person to eat 3-4 chicken wings.
FAQs:
When the soup shows a rich caramel color and there is obvious resistance when stirred with the spatula, the thickness at this time is the most appropriate. If it is found that the soup is still as thin as water, it is necessary to continue to reduce the juice over high heat. If the soup is too thick, there will be a situation of sticking to the bottom of the pan. At this time, a little hot water can be added for adjustment.
Too much cola will make the soup too sweet, destroying the original delicious taste of the chicken wings. At the same time, it will also prolong the time of reducing the juice and affect the taste of the chicken wings. The main function of cola is to add caramel aroma and provide appropriate sweetness and help soften the chicken. If you want a stronger cola flavor, you can add 50 ml of cola in the final stage of reducing the juice. In this way, both the taste balance is maintained and the effect of reducing the juice is not affected.
The main purpose of cutting is to make the chicken wing absorb more flavor, and the seasonings can penetrate into the meat better. At the same time, it can also make the chicken wing heat more evenly and avoid the situation of being charred on the outside and raw on the inside. When cutting, pay attention to the appropriate strength. The cut should not be too deep to avoid destroying the integrity of the chicken wing. It is recommended to cut obliquely with a sharp knife so that the finished product will be more beautiful. After cutting, the blanching time of the chicken wing can be shortened to about 1.5 minutes because of the cuts, and the heat transfer will be faster.
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