The easiest soy sauce chicken drumsticks

 

The simplest recipe soy sauce chicken drumsticks, Delicious chicken recipe that you and your family can make for dinner, It is an easy, simple, and quick recipe of chicken thighs with soy sauce.

INGREDIENTS

• 6 drumsticks Lilydale chicken or a whole 1.8kg chicken
• 1 cup soy sauce
• 1 cup soy sauce (dark)
• 1 unpeeled and halved brown onion
• 3 unpeeled and crushed garlic cloves
• 1 thickly sliced and bruised ginger knob the size of a thumb
• 2 stars anise
• 2 sticks cinnamon
• 1 cup caster sugar
• 1 bunch gai lan (Chinese broccoli), chopped into segments of 6-10cm
• 1 tbsp vegetable oil
• 1 tsp salt

METHOD

1. In a big pot with 1 litre of water, combine the soy sauces, onion, garlic ginger, star anise, cinnamon, and sugar. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly to dissolve the sugar. Add the chicken pieces, close the lid, and turn the heat down to very low. Poach the chicken for 45 minutes over low heat, then transfer to a serving plate to rest.
2. Transfer about  ½ cups of the chicken poaching liquid to a small saucepan (you can freeze the remaining poaching liquid to use again another time). Simmer for about 10 minutes, or until the liquid has been reduced by half.
3. Bring a medium saucepan of water to a boil, then add the gai lan stalks followed by the leaves. Pour the oil over the water and sprinkle with salt. Cook the gai lan for 2 minutes before removing it to a serving platter.
4. Serve the drumsticks with the sauce and the leaves.