Main ingredients 🥩
생닭울금가루parsleygreen oniongarlicgingermirinscallionchili oilcooking oil
Kang Leo's Cantonese-Style Moist Chicken Sook-yuk with Garlic Ginger Sauce
A chicken dish gently cooked in a spiced broth infused with turmeric and green onion, simmered without boiling to achieve a sous-vide-like moist and springy texture.
🙋 Recommended for
- ⭐ Those tired of dry chicken breast and curious about a technique to cook a whole chicken as tender as sous-vide.
- ⭐ Those wanting to enjoy a fragrant Cantonese-style chicken dish that is a cut above traditional samgyetang or baek-suk.
Ingredients needed 🛒2 servings
- 생닭
- 울금가루
- parsley
- green onion
- garlic
- ginger
- mirin
- scallion
- chili oil
- cooking oil
Recipe 🍳
- Fill a pot with plenty of water and add turmeric powder, parsley stems, white parts of green onions, garlic, ginger, and mirin. Bring to a rolling boil to create a spiced broth that reaches 100°C.
- Once the broth is boiling vigorously, add the prepared half-chicken whole. (The addition of chicken will drop the broth temperature to an ideal 77-80°C for cooking).
- Reduce the heat to very low and simmer gently for 20 minutes, keeping the lid completely open and ensuring the water never returns to a boil—just a gentle shimmer.
- While the chicken is poaching, prepare the sauce base in a bowl by combining chopped scallions, minced garlic, minced ginger, salt, and the chili sediment from the bottom of the chili oil.
- In a pan, heat the rendered chicken fat (or vegetable oil) until just smoking, then pour it over the prepared sauce ingredients. It should sizzle and release the aromas of the scallions, garlic, and ginger.
- After 20 minutes, remove the tender chicken. Let it cool slightly, then cut it along the bone structure into bite-sized pieces.
- Place the moist chicken on a plate and generously spoon the aromatic garlic ginger sauce over the top.
- Make a spiced broth by boiling water with turmeric, parsley stems, green onions, garlic, ginger, and mirin.
- When the broth boils, add the chicken. Simmer on low heat with the lid open, maintaining a gentle simmer without boiling, for 20 minutes.
- Mix chopped scallions, garlic, ginger, salt, and chili oil sediment. Pour hot oil over the mixture to create a fragrant scallion-ginger oil sauce.
- Let the chicken cool slightly, then cut into bite-sized pieces.
- Drizzle the garlic ginger sauce evenly over the chicken and serve.
Cooking tips 💡
- If you cover the pot while poaching the chicken, the steam pressure will cause the broth to boil again, making the chicken tough and dry. So leave the lid open and keep an eye on the process.
- When making the broth, use only the white parts of the green onions. The green leaves can release bitterness and a sticky residue if boiled for too long, resulting in a cleaner, deeper flavor.
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