Ingredients: half tender chicken (450g), 150g peeled chestnuts, two fresh red bell peppers, 1 whole garlic clove, 20g sliced ginger, two green garlic cloves.
Seasoning: 2 tbsp light soy sauce, 2 tsp sugar, 1 tsp oyster sauce, 1 tbsp cooking wine, 1 cup chicken broth.
Practice:
1, chicken washed and chopped into small pieces, red pepper cut into small pieces, garlic peeled with a whole ginger sliced and sliced green garlic cut into segments; shelled and peeled chestnuts first boiled in cold water, boiled and then boiled for 5 minutes to drain the water. Heat 2 tbsp oil in a wok, add chestnuts and sauté until the surface turns golden brown, remove from the wok and set aside.
2. In the remaining oil, add ginger and garlic and sauté. Add the chicken pieces and stir-fry. When the surface of the chicken pieces turns golden brown and the meat shrinks significantly. Pour in 1 tbsp cooking wine and cook until dry. Add the sauteed chestnuts.
3. Add all seasonings and 1 cup of chicken stock. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce heat to low and cook, covered. Cook on low heat with the lid on until the water is almost dried out. Stir in green garlic and red bell pepper until cooked. Stir in green garlic leaves and cook until done.
Tips:
1, if you buy large chestnuts can be cut in half, so as not to cook to the time when the soft enough; wild chestnuts, also known as sharp chestnuts, is the best raw material for chicken stew.
2, it is best to use an iron pot to stew, if not, use a sand pot. First of all, you need to boil in a large fire, and when the white gas bubbles clean, then change to a small fire communication. Then give it a lid. Then the aroma will start to produce, at first it is the meat aroma, slowly there is the sweet smell of chestnut, then the sweet aroma of chestnut, wait until the aroma is getting stronger and stronger, the sweetness and nutrition of chestnut will all enter the chicken meat, especially the chicken bone marrow. This kind of chestnut stewed chicken is called chestnut stewed chicken.
Tips: Eating chestnut stewed chicken is mainly to eat their nutrition. Add a little salt and you can eat it.