Chinese White-Cooked Chicken

Name: Chinese White-Cooked Chicken
Total time: 45 min
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 4.5 quarts water; 1 chicken; green onions; cilantro

45m

Serves 1

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Chinese White-Cooked Chicken

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45m

Serves 1

Directions

1Add a few ingredients (green onions and cilantro) to four and a half quarts of water to make a nice stock.
2Put the chicken breast-side up in the pot and simmer on low heat for 15 minutes.
3Flip the chicken for another 10 minutes.
4Turn off the heat and let it sit about half an hour.
5Make a high-impact sauce by mixing chopped green onions, cilantro, and other seasonings in a bowl.
6Add some of the stock from the pot to finish up the sauce.
7Cut the cooked chicken into pieces.
8Plate the chicken over a bed of chopped cabbage (napa cabbage is shown).
9Pour the sauce on top of the chicken and garnish with chopped cilantro leaves.

Ingredients

4.5 quarts water
1 chicken
green onions
cilantro

Equipment

pottongsknifeplatefork

Tips

Cooking in water is a brilliant way of cooking because water doesn't get over 212 degrees, allowing you to accurately modify the cooking temperature to a sub-simmer amount around 180-185 degrees.
An oven is a mess because you never know what the internal temperature is, but with this method, you get succulent, moist, tender chicken every time.
It is an incredibly efficient method for making sauce.
Reserve some of the flavored liquid and mix with fresh aromatics and seasonings to create a high-impact sauce.
It's a gentle and easy way to cook chicken with a really nice sauce on top

Chinese White-Cooked Chicken

45m

Serves 1

instagram.com

Chinese White-Cooked Chicken

instagram.com

45m

Serves 1

Directions

1Add a few ingredients (green onions and cilantro) to four and a half quarts of water to make a nice stock.
2Put the chicken breast-side up in the pot and simmer on low heat for 15 minutes.
3Flip the chicken for another 10 minutes.
4Turn off the heat and let it sit about half an hour.
5Make a high-impact sauce by mixing chopped green onions, cilantro, and other seasonings in a bowl.
6Add some of the stock from the pot to finish up the sauce.
7Cut the cooked chicken into pieces.
8Plate the chicken over a bed of chopped cabbage (napa cabbage is shown).
9Pour the sauce on top of the chicken and garnish with chopped cilantro leaves.

Ingredients

4.5 quarts water
1 chicken
green onions
cilantro

Equipment

pottongsknifeplatefork

Tips

Cooking in water is a brilliant way of cooking because water doesn't get over 212 degrees, allowing you to accurately modify the cooking temperature to a sub-simmer amount around 180-185 degrees.
An oven is a mess because you never know what the internal temperature is, but with this method, you get succulent, moist, tender chicken every time.
It is an incredibly efficient method for making sauce.
Reserve some of the flavored liquid and mix with fresh aromatics and seasonings to create a high-impact sauce.
It's a gentle and easy way to cook chicken with a really nice sauce on top