Braised Soy Sauce Pot

It has been a long time since i last cooked braised soy sauce pot. It's simple and delicious. Just prepare the sauce and put in what ever ingredients you like. What i put in my pot were chicken drumsticks, chicken wings, mini pork belly, hard boiled eggs, beancurd and fried beancurd. The best part about this dish is that you can keep the left over sauce in the fridge and use it to cook again. Or if you have left over ingredients, it can turn into lunch the next day. Just boil some noodle to go with the sauce and ingredients. Yum!

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Braised Soy Sauce Chicken

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Sauce Ingredients

- 1 whole garlic, light mashed

- 2 shallots, peeled

- 1 cinnamon stick

- 3 star anise

- 8 cloves

- 30g rock sugar

- 3 tbs dark soy sauce

- 2 tbs light soy sauce

- 1/2 tsp salt

- 4 chinese bowls of water

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Ingredients (just put anything that you like, this was what i put):

- 2 drum sticks

- 2 chicken wings

- 200g mini pork belly

- 2 beancurd

- 2 hard boiled eggs

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Directions:

1) Lightly brown garlic and shallot than throw in cinnamon stick, star anise and cloves. Over low heat, fry till you can smell light aroma from the spices, add in some water (2tbs) and the rock sugar.

2) When the rock sugar melted, add in the 4 boils of water, bring to boil. Add in the dark and light soy sauces and salt.

3) When the sauce comes to boil, add in all ingredients except the chicken. Let it boil for 15-20min over medium-low heat (with lid cover), than add in the chicken.

4) Let the chicken cook for 10min (15min if you are not using claypot) over low heat (with lid cover) than turn off the flame. Let the pot cover and braised for 1-2hour, undisturb (meaning, don't open the lid and stir).

** You can used any type of cooking pot, not neccessary claypot. However i enjoy using claypot because of it's ability to retain heat.

** If you are new to using claypot, take not that you are not supposed to use it over high flame or the pot will cracks.