Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, three cup chicken. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Three Cup Chicken is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Three Cup Chicken is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
Some fry the chicken before braising it, use more oil, less wine, different blends of soy sauce. Debates rage over how thick the sauce should be, over which parts of the chicken to use. (Few follow the folk recipe that calls for making the sauce with a cup each of sesame oil, soy sauce and rice wine. One of the beer-lovers' favorites in Taiwan. This dish requires three main ingredients - soy sauce, rice wine, and sesame oil.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook three cup chicken using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Three Cup Chicken:
- Take 1 lb chicken wings and drumsticks
- Prepare 3 tbsp black sesame sauce
- Get 1/4 cup soy sauce
- Take 1/3 cup rice wine
- Get 1-1/2 tbsp sugar
- Take 2 cups Taiwanese Basil
- Prepare 12 slices ginger
- Get 8 cloves garlic
- Prepare 1 small chili pepper
Stir together the soy sauce, rice wine and sugar in a bowl, pour over chicken. Bring to a boil, then turn down the heat to low. Three cup chicken, also known as "Sanbeiji" is an iconic chicken dish in Chinese cuisine, especially popular in Taiwan. The name three cup chicken derives from the three key ingredients in the sauce of the recipe: Sesame oil, Chinese rice wine, and soy sauce!
Steps to make Three Cup Chicken:
- Thinly slice the ginger. You can either peel the skin or leave the skin on but make sure to wash the skin very thoroughly.
- Get 8 gloves of garlic and peel of the skin. You can use more ginger, garlic and basil if you’d like. It will just make the dish more flavorful.
- Cut a small pepper in half
- Heat up your wok and add 3 cups of sesame oil. Next, add in the ginger slices and fry on medium-low heat for a few minutes or so.
- Then add the garlic gloves and continue frying. This will help release its fragrance and flavor. You can also eat the fried ginger and garlic later together with the chicken.
- When both the garlic and ginger are golden, add the chicken. Stir well until the chicken skin is cooked.
- Pour in 1/4 cup soy sauce, 1/3 cup rice wine, 1-1/2 tablespoon sugar, and the chili. Stir well
- Cover the wok and let everything cook on medium-high heat for about 5 to 6 minutes. The sauce will simmer down and get thicker. Occasionally stir the chicken to make sure it’s fully coated with the sauce.
- After 5 minutes, add the basil and stir it well. Cover with the lid again and let everything simmer for about 10 seconds. This will help the basil release its fragrance.
Three cup chicken, also known as "Sanbeiji" is an iconic chicken dish in Chinese cuisine, especially popular in Taiwan. The name three cup chicken derives from the three key ingredients in the sauce of the recipe: Sesame oil, Chinese rice wine, and soy sauce! Three Cup Chicken (San Bei Ji) Three Cup Chicken, or San Bei Ji, is a popular Taiwanese/Chinese dish. The name refers to the recipe used to make it, including a cup each of the three ingredients that create the sauce: rice wine, soy sauce, and sesame oil. Traditionally, three cup chicken is made with an entire chicken, carved-up, bone-in, and skin-on.
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