Easy Recipes: Chicken Cola Chicken

As I mentioned in another article, my wife is Chinese so we eat Chinese food at home quite regularly. I asked her to teach me a new recipe this weekend, preferably something easy that I could write about and pass on to other hopeless-in-the-kitchen husbands. She suggested we try to make Cola Chicken, and I was pleasantly surprised.

Apparently, this "caramelized" style of chicken dish has been around in China for a long time, but in the days before everyone had Cola, it was made simply with sugar. Back then it was pretty hard to make as most people would inevitably burn the sugar. With the advent of Cola, anyone could make the dish, and make it well. You should try it too:

Chicken Chili

Ingredients:

- 1 or 2 Spring onions

- 2 slices of ginger

- 1 can of Cola (not the diet or zero kind as it has no sugar)

- 1 tablespoon of Soy sauce

- 8 chicken legs or wings

- Some dried chilis if you like it spicy.

Instructions:

Start by boiling the chicken for about two minutes, then take it out leaving some nasty white stuff floating on the surface. You don't want that bit, by the way. Make some small cuts in the chicken, or stab them with a fork. Season the chicken with salt and pepper, and leave it to one side.

Chop up the Spring onions really small and slice the ginger if it isn't already. We don't need a lot of ginger, just 2 slices of fresh ginger is enough. Add a little oil to a pan and fry the ginger and spring onions (and the chopped chili if you're going to add some at all) until you get a lovely aroma going on there. Don't burn them! Add the chicken, and fry until they start to get a little brown. When that happens, pour in the cola and soy sauce. Turn the heat down to medium and simmer until the sauce has all but disappeared. It should about 15 minutes. As the sauce disappears, take care to stir it a couple of times so it doesn't burn.

Serve this as the main dish, but you'll need some other things to go with it. Potatoes or some rice are common. If you'd like the rice to have a little more flavour you could try the egg fried rice recipe I posted before, or you could try your hand at some of the other Chinese food recipes here.

Easy Recipes: Chicken Cola Chicken

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