When stewing chicken, add oil to the pot and stir-fry it so that the chicken is tender and not too old. The method is as follows:

Ingredients: appropriate amount of large rooster, appropriate amount of onion, ginger and garlic, dried chili pepper 4, 2 star anise, appropriate amount of cooking wine, appropriate amount of light soy sauce, appropriate amount of dark soy sauce, appropriate amount of white vinegar, a tablespoon of sugar, and five shiitake mushrooms.

1. Prepare the chicken.

2. Prepare onions, ginger, garlic and pepper.

3. Heat the oil in a pan and add the prepared onions, ginger, garlic, chili and star anise.

4. Add chicken and stir-fry.

5. Stir-fry until the color changes, add cooking wine, one tablespoon of dark soy sauce, two tablespoons of light soy sauce, and white vinegar and stir-fry.

6. Pour boiling water to cover the chicken and add sugar.

7. Skim off the foam, cover and simmer over medium heat for 20 minutes.

8. Add some mushrooms and continue to simmer for five minutes to reduce the soup.