Drunken Chicken
When I was a child I always thought you prepared drunken chicken by feeding the chicken a bottle of rice wine before cooking. I thought if the chicken was drunk enough it would make the meat taste of alcohol. Now I think how silly I was but who knows these things.
I love the taste of drunken chicken even if I’m not a big fan of food that tastes of alcohol. This drunken chicken uses Shaoxing rice for which people who have tasted it know it has a strong but special flavour. Some so called celebrity Eastern chefs use Shaoxing rice wine in many dishes but this really isn’t the way to use it.
This drunken chicken is best served as a cold dish making it a great summer dish. It’s refreshing, tasty but not too strong. I hope you enjoy making this dish.
These photos were taken by Chris from:Â Chris Radley Photography
Drunken Chicken
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 2 chicken legs including thigh, de-boned
- 2 spring onions cut into 3cm lengthways
- 2 thin slices ginger
- 1 tbsp goji berries
- 1 thin slice Chinese angelica root
- 2 thin slices liquorice root
Seasonings
- 200 ml Shaoxing rice wine
- 1 cup stock I used chicken stock
- 1 cup water
- 1 tsp salt
- Couples pinches sugar
Instructions
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Use some salt to marinade the chicken legs for 20 minutes and use a few sheets of cling film to wrap the chicken as displayed in the procedure photos below.
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Use a small sauce pan to boil the water, stock, spring onion, ginger, goji berries, angelica root, liquorice roots, salt and sugar. After boiling reduce to lowest heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Leave it aside to cool down.
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Add Shaoxing rice wine into step 2.
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Steam chicken for around 20 minutes until the chicken is cooked.
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Remove chicken from sling film and soak in marinade for at lest 6 hours. Leave in a fridge overnight.
I never had drunken chicken for the same reason but I like your recipe. I have to try this. I like how you make it into a roll.
Hi Joy,
Thank you for your kind comment.
Hahaha I know who would have known those things right?
Did you forget to post the photo of cooking procedure as mentioned in the step 1? just wondering
I’ve has this before when I was a kid. It brings back good old memories! Great recipe and photos as always!!!
lol…Tanatha, Thank you very much to remind me about my procedures photo.(shy…)
Hi Liv, Looks and sounds very tasty. I love your story too, it was funny. As children we have such goofy ideas and thoughts:)
You’re right. Children always have such goofy ideas and thoughts 🙂 and I think that’s great. Many thanks for your kind comment.
Yum…Love all drunken things:)
Hi, drunken things are really good. Really tasty.
Thanks
Liv
Hi Liv, Your story about the drunken chicken is so cute! Isn’t it funny how we believed things worked when we were children? 🙂
Hi Judy, I kind of miss being a child and having such a creative mind about everything but my husband often calls me a child so things probably haven’t changed that much for me 😀
I have cooked drunken chicken before but I think your method is much better than mine. I would like to try it into a row.
Hi, thanks for your compliment. This is the easiest way I know how to make drunken chicken but I really love the banana split on your blog, it’s so so cute
so funny, I thought the same when I was little – and at a family banquet – when drunken chicken was ordered, a bunch of us went looking for these chicken that were drunk at the back of the restaurant!!!
Hi Jenny,
Thank you for your comment and the little story from yourself. It makes me laugh. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought drunken chicken was chicken get drunk lol. Hi5
Hi, I would like to try to make this dish, but it appears there is an error on this page where the text repeats itself. Can you also add approximations for the ingredients? Thank you!
Hello Gwen,
I’ve fixed the problem now so you should be able to see the correct recipes. Thank you for let me know the error. I’ve recently changed my theme and seo plugin and some of my posts had a few problems. I’m trying to fix them at moment. Sorry for caused you any inconvenience.