Cook - Sesame Oil Chicken

If I could rename this well known dish from Taiwan, rather than the direct translation “Sesame Oil Chicken”, I’d call it the Drunken Ginger Chicken. Though it won’t make you drunk because the alcohol is mostly evaporated during the cooking, I think it just sounds a bit better than an oily chicken.


Ingredients:
slices of ginger,
1 1/2 tbsp sesame oil,
2 cups Taiwanese cooking sake & 2 1/2 cups water,
four chicken drumsticks,
2 tbsp of vegetable oil


bring the vegetable oil hot
add ginger slices and fry it until golden brown both sides
add the sesame oil onto the gingers, pan fry for another minute to infuse the two well


add the drumsticks then brown them on all sides
add the sake to cover about 1/3 height of the chicken
bring to the boil then simmer for five minutes.


add water to cover 2/3 of the chicken
bring to the boil then let it simmer for another 20-30 minutes


add Japanese somen and make it a meal
Serves two.