Description
Copycat Aristocrat South China Chicken is a copycat recipe from Aristocrat where chicken is served in a sweet savoury Asian style gravy with ham, quail eggs and Asian greens.
Ingredients
Chicken
- 1 whole dressed chicken
- oil
Brine
- 1 litre warm water
- ⅓ cup salt
- 1 tbsp sugar
Asian Sauce
- 1 cup chicken stock
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 4 tbsp oyster sauce
- 2 tbsp Chinese cooking wine
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 2 tsp sesame oil
- 1/2 tsp ground white pepper
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 shallot, finely chopped
- 2 tsp ginger paste
- oil
Others
- 20 pcs quail eggs
- 1 cup thick cut Champagne ham, sliced
- 1 bunch choy sum, bok choy or gailan, blanched
Instructions
- Combine all brine ingredients together in a large ziplock bag. Add the whole chicken, secure the ziplock then place in the refrigerator for 12 hours.
- Remove from the refrigerator one hour before cooking. Drain the chicken thoroughly then set it aside.
- Heat enough oil for deep frying a whole chicken in a deep fryer or a large heavy pot. Once it reaches 180C deep fry chicken for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown and cooked.
- Remove from the fryer, drain then let it cool down.
- Once cooled down, chop your chicken into pieces then set them aside.
- In a bowl mix together chicken stock, soy sauce, oyster sauce, Chinese cooking wine, cornstarch, sugar, sesame oil and ground white pepper. Set it aside.
- Heat oil in a wok, sauté garlic, ginger and shallots.
- Bring heat to high then pour the sauce, bring it to a boil.
- Add the ham and quail eggs, continue to boil until sauce becomes thick.
- Add the chopped chicken, do not mix, cover the wok then simmer for 2 minutes still in high heat.
- Turn off heat, scoop out the chopped chicken, place it in in a serving platter, top it with the sauce together with the ham and quail eggs, then place the blanched choy sum on the side.
- Serve and enjoy!
This is so flavourful and yum! And I want some quail eggs :-))
I love those quail eggs!!!
I’m not familiar with Aristocrat, but this certainly sounds like a delicious recipe. This looks like it would be perfect on a chilly Fall day!
We love quail eggs. We have to be careful to whom we serve them because they are such cute little desert dwellers here, and some people are mortified if we eat them. This looks like a wonderful dish of flavor…
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