Beer Chicken (啤酒鸡)

Beer Chicken (啤酒鸡)

Have you ever try or hear of Beer Chicken? And YES you did not read wrongly, the chicken will be cooking with one of ingredient of beer. There was this one day I switched on the television and it was showing one of the Chinese cuisine cooking channel by teaching how to cook Beer Chicken. There were food cook with wine such as lamb, beef. However, Beer Chicken mainly is Chinese food actually although beer is more toward to the western. Moreover, I have tried Butter Chicken, Sweet&Sour Chicken, Cola Chicken but I have never try Beer Chicken before so once I saw the channel I sat down, prepared piece of paper and a pen to mark down the recipe. The recipe just so simple, the marination have 7 ingredients only while the sauce have 5 items. Let's ready for having this simple Beer Chicken instead of drinking only the beer!

Sauce
a) Chopped Onion

b) Chili Flakes - 2 Tablespoons

c) Garlic - 2 Tablespoons

d) Soup such as chicken stock - ½ cup

e) Beer such as Tiger, Carlsberg, Heineken except black beer Guinness - ½ cup







Marination
a) Garlic - 2 Tablespoons

b) Chili Flakes or Dry Chillies - 2 Tablespoons

c) Curry Powder - 1 Teaspoons

d) Salt - 1 Teaspoons

e) Sugar - 2 Tablespoons

f) Flour - 1 Tablespoon

g) Light Soy Sauce - 1 Tablespoon

h) Chicken Thigh or Chicken Breast- 4 pieces


For this recipe I have chosen Carlsberg beer, Chicken Thigh due to tastier and soft. However, Chicken Breast is more healthy so if you want it soft you could braise it.



1. First, debone the chicken thigh so that it is easier for everyone to consume then marination has to be done 2 hours minimum in fridge before cooking. The best is to marinate overnight and piercing the chicken with fork will help it absorbs the spices or manaride.


2. After manarination ready the wok and heat up the oil and take the marinated chicken out from fridge. When the oil heated, fry the chicken pieces until it turns light golden brown. Then drain the oil of chicken and put aside.


3. Next, pour around 2-3 tablespoons of oil to the pan, sauté the onions and garlic, pour in soup and beer then mix in the chilli flakes. Keep stirring then add in some salt and sugar to desire taste.


4. Add in the chicken to the sauce, bring the liquid to boil then reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer uncovered around 20-25 minutes until sauce slightly thickened, chicken become tender.


5. Voilà, there you go!