Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, simmered lotus root and chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Simmered Lotus Root and Chicken is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Simmered Lotus Root and Chicken is something that I have loved my whole life.
Heat the frying pan, put in the vegetable oil, and saute the chicken. Combine the flavoring ingredients and stir them lightly in a bowl or a measuring cup. Put all the flavoring ingredients in the frying pan and simmer them on medium-high heat. Savory Simmered Lotus Root and Chicken Chunky lotus root, chicken, and shiitake mushrooms simmered in a sweet and savory broth with a touch of ginger.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have simmered lotus root and chicken using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Simmered Lotus Root and Chicken:
- Make ready 400 grams Lotus root
- Make ready 250 grams Chicken thigh meat
- Make ready 20 Snap peas or snow peas
- Take 1 tbsp Vegetable oil
- Get Flavoring ingredients:
- Get 200 ml Water
- Prepare 50 ml Mentsuyu sauce (4x concentrated)
- Get 1/2 tbsp Sugar
- Make ready 1 tsp Vinegar
Add the oil in a large pot and heat over medium high heat. Add chicken and cook until the outside of the chicken pieces are cooked. Add carrot, bamboo shoots, burdock, lotus root and konnyaku to the pot. Stir for a few minutes until outside of the vegetables is slightly cooked.
Steps to make Simmered Lotus Root and Chicken:
- Peel and cut the lotus root into bite size pieces. Soak it in water with 1 teaspoon of vinegar (not listed) to remove the scum.
- Cut the chicken into bite size pieces. Heat the frying pan, put in the vegetable oil, and saute the chicken.
- When the chicken gets light brown, drain the lotus root and saute with the chicken for 3 to 4 minutes.
- Combine the flavoring ingredients and stir them lightly in a bowl or a measuring cup. Put all the flavoring ingredients in the frying pan and simmer them on medium-high heat.
- Stir the ingredients in the frying pan occasionally. Simmer until the liquid in the pan reduces to 1/3 of the volume.
- When the liquid becomes 1/3 of the original volume, add the snap peas and reduce to medium heat.
- Keep shaking the frying pan to saute and simmer the ingredients until the liquid disappears completely. Put in a serving dish and it's done.
Add carrot, bamboo shoots, burdock, lotus root and konnyaku to the pot. Stir for a few minutes until outside of the vegetables is slightly cooked. Cut the lotus root, burdock root, carrots, and shiitake mushrooms into bite-sized pieces. Combine the sauce ingredients and then add to saucepan. Remove from the saucepan and put the simmered chicken on a medium sized plate and set aside.
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