Oyster Sauce Chicken (蚝油焖鸡)
A simple and delicious way to cook chicken, Chinese oyster sauce chicken requires little effort and basic skills but delivers amazing taste.
- Prep time
- 3 min
- Cook time
- 30 min
- Yield
- 6 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 tablespoon neutral cooking oil
- 6 chicken thighs (skin on and bone in) (about 2 lb/900g in total (see note 1))
- 10 clove garlic
- 10 slice ginger
- 2 tablespoon oyster sauce (see note 2)
- 2 tablespoon Shaoxing rice wine
- 1 tablespoon light soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- ¼ teaspoon ground white pepper
- 1 cup hot water
- 5 dried chilies (optional)
- 1 stalk scallions (finely chopped)
Instructions
- 1
Sear the chicken
- 2
Heat oil in a skillet. Place in chicken thighs, garlic cloves, and sliced ginger. Pan fry over medium heat until both sides turn lightly golden.
- 3
Braise the chicken
- 4
Mix oyster sauce, Shaoxing rice wine, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, sugar, and white pepper with hot water. Pour the mixture into the skillet and add dried chilies if using.
- 5
Cover the skillet with a lid and leave to braise over medium heat for 15 minutes. Flip over the chicken thighs and cook for a further 10 minutes.
- 6
Thicken the sauce
- 7
Uncover the skillet and turn the heat up to high. Let the sauce bubble intensely. Once the sauce has become thick enough to coat a spatula, remove the skillet from the heat.
- 8
Garnish the chicken with chopped scallions and serve immediately.