A toast to Shao Hsing wine and char sui chicken
Live MintMy family, like most I imagine, has two culinary moods—comfort food and surprise-us food. An essential ingredient of char sui anything is Chinese five-spice powder, which I have, but I wasn’t prepared to use an old bottle of spice with the aromas sucked out. An essential ingredient of char sui is Chinese Shao Hsing cooking wine, made with fermented rice. After making the cha sui chicken, it was apparent that apart from soy sauce, make sure you keep a bottle of Shao Hsing wine in your larder if you want to toss up reasonably authentic Chinese food. CHAR SUI ROASTED CHICKEN Serves 4 Ingredients 750g chicken, cut into pieces For the marination 1 tsp sesame oil 1 small onion, finely chopped 7 garlic cloves, finely chopped 1 tbsp dark soy sauce 1 tbsp Shao hsing hua tua cooking wine/vinegar Salt to taste 1 tsp Chinese five-spice powder Method Home-made Chinese five-spice powder: 1 tsp fennel seeds, half star anise, 1 tsp white and black peppercorns, 1-inch piece cinnamon, 3 cloves.
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