December 6, 2006
Chicken Recipe (5) - Spring Onion Chicken
I wanted to cook chicken with spaghetti the other day so I went around surfing for a chicken spaghetti recipe, but all I could find were stuff on chicken casseroles. I was thinking of something simple like my stir fried spaghetti with black peppered beef, or my spaghetti with shrimp and anchovies.
I did think of just adding salt and pepper to the chicken thighs and then baking it in the oven. Then I thought of pan-frying them to get a nice brown skin. I also thought of cutting them into smaller pieces and stir frying them with light soy sauce but decided that wouldn’t go very well with spaghetti.
See how fickle I am? So what? I have the biological right to be fickle heh! I am after all a woman. And one with the hormone levels out of wack at the moment.
Finally I decided on a stir fried spring onion chicken dish to go with plain white rice. Here’s the quick and easy Chinese recipe.
Ingredients (Serves 2):
- 2 chicken thighs
- 2 tbsp dark soy sauce
- 2 stalks spring onion
- a few slices ginger
- 1/2 tsp minced garlic
- 1 tbsp rice wine
- 1 pc rock sugar
- 1/4 cup water or chicken broth
Cooking method:
1. Debone chicken and cut into pieces. Marinate with dark soy sauce and set aside for about 15 minutes.
2. Heat up 2 tbsp of vegetable oil in a wok. While doing so, cut spring onion on the bias into one and a half inch pieces. Cut ginger into slices.
3. Stir fry garlic and chicken until chicken changes color. Set aside.
4. Stir fry ginger and spring onions until fragrant. Add chicken, rice wine, rock sugar and water (or chicken broth). Mix well, cover wok and allow to braise over low heat for about 10 minutes.
Luckily for me, my husband is not one whereby he tunes his taste buds according to what I tell him I will cook for dinner. You know… how sometimes you’ll say let’s go for Kentucky Fried Chicken or something… then you keep thinking about that fried chicken you are going to eat soon. I don’t know about you, but my taste buds can be “programmed” and if you suddenly change the menu, my taste buds get a bit disappointed that they have to be “re-programmed”.
So this is my “How the chicken spaghetti became a stir fried spring onion with rice” story. And everyone continues to live happily ever after.
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More recipes:
Stir Fried Beef With Ginger And Spring Onions
Roasted Duck Gives You Bang For The Buck
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December 6th, 2006 at 3:53 pm
Must be the hormones. I have never heard of spaghetti with chicken before. I’m going back to my cave now.
December 6th, 2006 at 4:16 pm
LOL! You crack me up!
December 6th, 2006 at 4:36 pm
I think spaghetti with chicken exist. Try it pomodoro way, and you can lightly grill the chicken first. Maybe you can try “kai xi meen” but use spaghetti instead…heeheehee
December 6th, 2006 at 4:43 pm
Just salt & pepper then grill and shred?
December 6th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
I would think it will work. Better still if you have some kind of seasoning herbs or spices for the chicken. Then have your pasta - Pomodoro if you like tomato-based; cabonara if you like cheese-based.
December 6th, 2006 at 5:48 pm
I gotta adopt this one :-) I love the easy things… (But next time do try the “military pasta” thing. So few ingredients and so easy — for those really lazy days…
Hormones out of wack? Expecting? :-) ? When? (And congrats!)
Versions of spaghetti with chicken are actually quite common in my house. Sometimes “military”, sometimes chicken is mixed with marinara sauce…
December 6th, 2006 at 6:44 pm
Hi Tigerfish, I thought Pomodoro is the name of a restaurant and tomato-based sauce is called marinara sauce??
Thanks Vasilisa, :) what is “military pasta”?
I am like getting some pasta education today!
December 7th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
Pomodoro is mainly olive oil and fresh tomatoes. Marinara has oil, tomatoes plus some other herbs like basil.
Aglio olio is mainly garlic and oil.
Relearning my stuff, manz….
December 7th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
Try cooking Teriyaki Chicken then have it with Linguine. It actually taste quite good! Very very Asian style :-)
December 8th, 2006 at 8:20 am
Sounds good!
December 17th, 2006 at 2:12 am
you can try adding in carrots to yr ingredients. the carrots should be cut in big pieces. cover the ingredients with water and cook til the water is about 1/3 full and thick.the carrots and chicken should b very soft by then.very nice and yummy.if you can take spicy stuff, u can also add one or two fresh red chilli just for taste :)
December 18th, 2006 at 8:29 am
Ooh.. this sounds like chicken stew! Thanks Yee for visiting my blog!
December 30th, 2006 at 4:43 am
Nice and simple :) Can’t wait to try it out :)
April 4th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
sounds similar to Soy Sauce Chicken — just add Five Spice Powder. My son’s favorite dish!
April 4th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
I used five spice powder for my roast pork recently. Check it out!