Chicken

Sides:

Onion, bok choy, one slice of bread, one egg

Seasoning/Marinade:

Pepper, soy sauce, granulated sugar, cooking wine

Method:

1. First, to make the stock, put one cup of cooking wine into a pot and boil it, to remove the alcoholic content. Then add 3 to 4 cups of soy sauce and 30 grams of sugar and stir well.

2. Cut half an onion into 1-centimeter-wide chunks; cut half a bok choy into 5-centimeter lengths; take a piece of chicken thigh meat and cut it into bite-sized pieces after removing the fat that sticks to it; the fat should be used for frying the meat, so don't throw it away.

3. Prepare the chicken meatballs. Take a slice of bread, remove the edges and cut it into 2-centimeter pieces, put it into a large bowl and add two tablespoons of water and an egg, knead it with your hands and mix it well. Transfer to a mortar and mix well, then add 200 grams of minced chicken and continue mixing until it becomes sticky, then add a little pepper and soy sauce and mix again.

4, put the iron pot on the fire, put the chicken fat previously removed into the pot to fry, so that the fat melted in the pot.

5, the chicken piece by piece in the pot, quickly grill both sides, chicken color changes, add the previously made soup.

6, add the onion and bok choy, and with a spoon wetted with water, scoop up the previously seasoned ground chicken and make one ball into the pot to cook on a low flame. Once the meat and vegetables are cooked, dip them into the whisked raw egg and eat.

Specialties:

Chicken hot pot is made by frying chicken in chicken fat in a shallow pan over a fire, adding a soup made of soy sauce, sugar (or miso), sake, and sauce, and cooking vegetables and tofu, and eating them as they cook. Different regions and families use ingredients and broths other than chicken according to their own preferences. "Chicken hot pot" or "chicken nabe" is an essential meal during the cold winter months in Japan, and it is cooked on the stove at the table and eaten while it is hot and steamy. The way to eat hot pot is also very simple: you put the ingredients on a large plate and cook and eat.

Because hot pot not only meat, there are a lot of vegetables called health food, so, very popular with young housewives favorite. In addition to chicken thighs, you can also use chicken minced meat rolled into chicken meatballs into the hot pot, also has a special flavor. Chicken meatballs should be put in when the pot is rolling, otherwise, the meatballs will fall apart. After the chicken, meatballs and onions are cooked in the pot, dip them in whisked raw eggs, or leave them out if you don't like raw eggs. This way. As you eat, add meat and vegetables to the pot, add broth when the pot runs dry, and add liquid such as wine and water to taste if the flavor is too strong. Finally, rice is added to the pot of soup and mixed with a raw egg, which is very tasty.