Herbal Chicken

Serves 8

Time ~1 hour

Style normal

Cuisine Chinese

Ingredients

1.5-2kg: chicken thigh or drumsticks (Really any bone-in chicken part works)
1 bottle: black glutinous rice wine (This does a lot of the heavy lifting)
1: Herbal Soup Packet, or the combination below
10g: 当归 (Angelica Root)
20g: 党参 (Codonopsis)
30g: 玉竹 (Fragrant Solomonseal Rhizome)
4 pieces: red dates (pitted)
: Soy Sauce to season
10g: goji berries
8L: Chicken stock (or water works too)

01

Brown all the chicken (if you're using thighs, you can actually render the fat down and use that)
02

Add in the rest of the ingredients
03

Cover and simmer under medium low heat for at least 1 hour
04

Ideally, try to rest it for as long as it's been braising, or even better is overnight.
05

Then, try your best to take out all the meat because the more you stir it, the more the meat will fall apart in the soup
06

There are now two ways to about this, similar to Taiwanese Sesame Oil Chicken (麻油鸡)
07

You can reduce the stock until it's more of gravy, add in a cornflour slurry to thicken
08

Or you can have it as a soup.
09

Either ways, serve with some mee sua and Blanched Asian Vegetables