Soy Sauce Chicken

Name: Soy Sauce Chicken
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 whole chicken (about 1.5kg); 250ml light soy sauce and 125ml dark soy sauce; 100g rock sugar; 100ml Shaoxing wine; 2 star anise, 1 cinnamon stick, dried tangerine peel; Ginger and spring onions; 1 litre water

豉油鸡/see-yow GAI/

Also known as: See Yau Gai, Si Yau Gai, Cantonese Soy Sauce Chicken

About this dish

A whole chicken gently poached in a fragrant master stock of soy sauce, rock sugar and spices until glossy and mahogany-coloured.

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Ingredients

🐔1 whole chicken (about 1.5kg)

🫙250ml light soy sauce and 125ml dark soy sauce

🍬100g rock sugar

🍷100ml Shaoxing wine

🌟2 star anise, 1 cinnamon stick, dried tangerine peel

🫚Ginger and spring onions

💧1 litre water

Method

Serves 3

Bring all the ingredients except the chicken to a simmer in a deep pot.

Lower in the chicken, breast side down, and simmer gently for 15 minutes.

Turn the chicken, cover, turn off the heat and leave for 30 minutes to finish cooking.

Baste with the sauce, lift out and brush with sesame oil.

Chop and serve with a little sauce over rice.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

See yau gai is a Cantonese siu mei classic hung in the windows of roast meat shops; the master stock is reused for years.

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