Braised chicken legs is a delicious home-cooked dish. Below is a detailed nanny-level tutorial, including a list of ingredients and preparation steps.
Ingredients list:
- Chicken legs: 6 pieces
- Rock sugar: 1 piece
- Onion, ginger and garlic: appropriate amount
- Star anise: 2 pcs
- Chili pepper: 5 pcs
- Cumin: a handful
- Grass fruit: one
- Zanthoxylum bungeanum: a handful
- Amomum villosum: 2 pieces
- Fragrant leaves: 2 pieces
- Cardamom: 2 pieces
- Cinnamon bark: 2 pieces
- Light soy sauce: 15 grams
- Cooking wine: 5 grams
- Dark soy sauce: 5 grams
Preparation steps:
1. Wash the chicken legs and set aside. At the same time, prepare all the seasonings, including rock sugar, onion, ginger, garlic, star anise, chili pepper, cumin, grass fruit, peppercorns, amomum villosum, bay leaves, cardamom and cinnamon.
2. In a large bowl, place the chicken legs and add enough water to cover the chicken legs. Then add 2 tablespoons of salt, stir evenly with chopsticks, and marinate for 10 minutes.
3. Take a cooking pot, add enough water, and put in the marinated chicken legs. Note that the water surface should be higher than the chicken legs. Then add ginger slices and garlic cloves, and pour an appropriate amount of cooking wine.
4. Bring to a boil over high heat, skim off the foam, then turn to medium heat and continue to cook for 20 minutes.
5. While the chicken legs are cooking, you can start making the brine. Take a wok, add an appropriate amount of oil, add onion, ginger and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant.
6. Add star anise, chili pepper, cumin, grass fruit, peppercorns, amomum villosum and cinnamon, and continue to stir-fry.
7. Pour in an appropriate amount of light soy sauce and dark soy sauce, add an appropriate amount of water, and add rock sugar.
8. After the high heat boils, reduce the heat to medium-low and continue to cook for 10 minutes until the brine becomes thick.
9. Take the cooked chicken legs out of the pot, put them into the brine, and simmer over low heat for 10 minutes.
10. After ten minutes, take the chicken legs out of the brine and put them on a plate. You can sprinkle some chopped green onion as a garnish.
11. Take out the brine from the pot, pour it on the chicken legs and enjoy the delicious braised chicken legs.
The above is a detailed tutorial on braised chicken legs, including the ingredient list and production steps. Hope this helps!