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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Recipe Recipe: Sweet & Spicy Sticky Chicken
Posted By Priscilla Tsai on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:24 AM
This Sweet & Spicy Sticky Chicken is a tried and true recipe that I've been making for years now. It takes about 45 minutes to make from start to finish. It's so tasty, you'll want to lick the sauce off your fingers.
My recipe, which was Xeroxed from a Fine Cooking magazine at least 8 years ago, shows signs of wear -- the paper is yellowed, it has many creases and is covered with a sprinkling of soy sauce stains -- true signs of a good recipe.
In addition to being sweet and spicy, this chicken is salty, too, due to the fish sauce and soy sauce. Don't over do fish sauce -- it's quite pungent. (If you can't find fish sauce at your local grocery store, you can most likely find it at any Asian grocery store.) Serve it with steamed rice and a side of veggies.
Sweet & Spicy Chicken
Ingredients:
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup fish sauce
1/3 cup water water
3 Tbs rice wine vinegar
2 Tbs soy sauce
1 Tbs fresh ginger, minced
2 cloves garlic, minced
½ tsp freshly ground black pepper
½ tsp crushed red chile flakes
1 Tbs oil
3 spring onions or bunch of chives, thinly slices
6-8 chicken thighs (fat and skin removed)
Cilantro sprigs as a garnish
Directions:
In a bowl, whisk together the brown sugar, fish sauce, water, rice wine vinegar, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, black pepper, and crushed red chile flakes.
Heat the oil in a large frying pan over medium heat. Add the scallions andcook until soft, about 3 min. Add the thighs and the brown sugar mixture. Turn the heat to high and bring to a boil. As soon as it comes to a boil, reduce the head to low and simmer, turning hte thighs occasionally, until cooked, 25 to 30 min.
Remove the thighs from the pan and cover with foil to keep warm. Increase the heat to high and reduce the sauce by half or until it is slightly thickened and resmbles a bubbling caramel sauce. Serve the chicken with the sauce, garnished with the cilantro sprigs.
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