It’s been too long since the last recipe was posted on this blog, so here goes.
This soya sauce chicken dish was first made by Haze off a recipe she obtained online, it turned out pretty good but I thought there were something lacking, so after giving it a bit of thought I came up with this version that took a cue from the tau eu bak recipe.
cloves, star anise, cinnamon stick, ginger, garlic
The ingredients are pretty similar to the tau eu bak – your usual suspects of Chinese/Nyonya cooking. I use chicken wings as the meat, but you can substitute this with any part of chicken, and I have reasonable confidence that it’ll work well with duck too.
- 1-2 star anise
- 3-4 cloves
- 1 cinnamon stick
- half a bulb of garlic
- 2 slices of ginger (more if you’re cooking duck)
- half a cup of soya sauce
- 1 tablespoon of dark soya sauce
- sugar to taste (1-2 teaspoon)
- 1.5 cups of water
- 4 chicken wings
1 part soya sauce, 3 part water
The cooking instruction is about as simple as you can get:
- bring water and soya sauce to boil (1 part soya sauce, 3 part water)
- add chicken, star anise, garlic, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves
- let simmer for 30 minutes
- add sugar and dark soya sauce
- simmer for another 5 minutes or till sauce thickens
- serve while hot
simmer for 30 mins, add sugar and a dash of dark soya sauce
The difference between this and the “original” recipe was the addition of dark soya sauce, this thickens the sauce quite a bit and adds a bit of complexity that sugar can’t bring out.
This is a very easy dish to cook and best enjoy with steamed rice. Happy cooking!
soya sauce chicken wings, le slurps
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interesting. . . . . . i usually add the dark soy sauce together as it will be absorb by the chicken meat and will create a darker hue. just me 2 cents though!
foodcrazee: the dark soya sauce was a bit of an after thought. lol.
after thought? how can it be a tau yeu bak then? lolz
foodcrazee: still got tau yeu. hahaha.
Simple and nice. 🙂 I did cook this once me thinks…
You should add dark brown sugar for an interesting flavor. 🙂
Michelle: that would be interesting, maybe next time!
wah you can open your own restaurant already serving KY home-cooked dishes!
eiling: except my cooking is too slow and ingredients too expensive. lol.
i second that!
i think it’s the soy sauce used that make or break this type of dish..used the best quality and you’ll taste the difference.
jen: yeap the choice of soya sauce certainly makes a huge difference.
with ginger, garlic, cloves, star anise AND cinnamon in it, it’s gotta be pretty healthy, right! a recipe that can combat everything from fatigue to runny noses! 😀
Sean: haha yah, taruh all the spices = win!
Nice! I would have gone with drumsticks coz I’m not a big fan of chicken wings…doesn’t have enough meat on it. 😀
Huai Bin: yea drum sticks would work just as well!
but chicken wings is finger lickin good.
suanie: better than KFC!