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Preparation
20 minutes
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Cooking
40 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Sweet and sour braised chicken is delicious and extremely easy to make, adding variety and appeal to family meals. Let’s get into the kitchen and cook this delicious braised dish for your family!
Ingredients for Sweet and Sour Braised Chicken Serves 3
Chicken 500 gr Shallots 3 bulbs Fish sauce 1.5 tablespoons Oyster sauce 1 tablespoon Lemongrass 1 stalk Ginger 1 piece Garlic 4 cloves Green onions 2 stalks Tamarind juice 2 tablespoons Chili sauce 1 tablespoon Cooking oil 1/2 tablespoon Common spices a little (pepper/ sugar/ seasoning)
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Tips for choosing good chicken
When buying live chicken
- Hold 2 chickens of the same size, the one that feels heavier has firmer meat.
- The chicken’s beak is sharp, shiny, and has no slimy discharge from the beak.
- The chicken’s legs are straight, slender, even, with no scratches, no broken or chipped nails, and no red spots or strange spots on the legs.
- Part the chicken’s feathers to see thin, soft skin; gently squeeze the body of the chicken to feel firmness, not flabbiness, with some large yellow streaks under the breast and wings. Under the chicken’s wings, armpits may show meat, and blood vessels indicate that the chicken is firm with no fat.
- The chicken’s crop is not tight, indicating the chicken is healthy.
When buying pre-prepared chicken:
- The skin of local chicken is light yellow with darker yellow in some areas like the breast, wings, and back, while battery chickens are white or uniformly yellow (possibly due to harmful dyeing). To identify if the chicken is dyed, observe; if the chicken skin is yellow but the internal fat is white, then it is chemically dyed chicken.
- The skin of local chicken is thin, smooth, and highly elastic. Choose chicken meat that looks fresh, with no foul odor or antibiotic smell, and the skin should not have bruises or blood clots. To buy good chicken, avoid choosing dark-skinned chickens as they are likely to have died before processing.
- Additionally, to avoid buying water-injected chicken, pay attention to the thighs and breast and press those areas; if they feel mushy, slippery, or deformed, do not buy. These injected chemicals are not good for health.
How to prepare Tamarind Braised Chicken
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Prepare the chicken
Clean the chicken, pluck off the fine down feathers (small, black hairs still stuck on the chicken’s skin), rub a little salt or lemon on the chicken’s skin to make it clean and reduce odor, then rinse with water until clean. Drain and cut into bite-sized pieces.
Tips to prepare chicken without odor:
- To avoid odor, you need to remove all the feathers, including the fine down feathers to make the chicken white, clean, and less smelly.
- Mix vinegar and salt in the ratio: 2 salt 1 vinegar, then rub all over the chicken, scrubbing many times and then rinse thoroughly with clean water or rub lemon and salt on the chicken skin or use a little ginger and white wine to rub on the chicken to eliminate the smell.
See details: The simplest tips to eliminate the smell of chicken and duck when cooking
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Marinate the chicken
Add to the bowl of chicken meat 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of seasoning, 3 minced shallots, 1.5 tablespoons of fish sauce, 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce, and 1 tablespoon of chili sauce. Mix well and marinate for about 30 minutes for the chicken to absorb the seasoning evenly.
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Braised Chicken
Place a pan on the stove, turn on medium heat, heat 1/2 tablespoon of cooking oil, add 1 tablespoon of sugar and cook until the sugar turns slightly golden, then add minced lemongrass, minced ginger, and minced garlic to sauté until fragrant, then add the marinated chicken and stir-fry until it is sealed.
Add 2 tablespoons of tamarind juice to the pot, cover and reduce the heat to low, braise the chicken for about 20 minutes until the liquid reduces. Sprinkle chopped green onions and ground pepper in and then turn off the heat.
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Final Product
The tamarind-braised chicken is delicious and appealing with beautifully golden-brown chicken pieces, rich in spices with a slight sweet and sour taste from the tamarind, making it truly enticing, served with hot rice is a perfect combination.
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Stewed chicken with tamarind is delicious and really easy to make, isn’t it? Let’s get into the kitchen and cook this delicious dish for your family. Wishing you success!
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