Rose Hand-Shredded Chicken

Name: Rose Hand-Shredded Chicken
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 3 h
Total time: 3 h 30 min
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 (about 700-800 g) young hen (slaughtered and cleaned); 1 kg rose sugar; 1 kg rock sugar; 750 g rose wine; 15 kg light soy sauce; 150 g cinnamon; 150 g licorice; 25 g cardamom; 25 g bay leaves; 100 g apple; 25 g star anise

A classic Cantonese dish of chicken marinated in rose wine, sugar, and seasonings, then smoked until cooked. Golden in color, with a rich rose wine aroma and tender, silky meat.

3h 30m

Easy

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Ingredients

young hen (slaughtered and cleaned) 1 (about 700-800 g)

rose sugar 1 kg

rock sugar 1 kg

rose wine 750 g

light soy sauce 15 kg

cinnamon 150 g

licorice 150 g

cardamom 25 g

bay leaves 25 g

apple 100 g

star anise 25 g

Instructions

Make the sauce vat

Wrap the above spices in a thin cloth, place them in a sauce vat, and simmer over low heat until the fragrance is released. Add the wine and sugar to form the soy sauce wine-sugar marinade. You may add additional soy sauce, but never add water.

Smoke the chicken

Place the cleaned chicken into the rose soy sauce vat and smoke-cook it until the chicken is fall-off-the-bone tender.

Shred the chicken

Shred the chicken meat off the bones and cut it into chopstick-stick-shaped strips.

Plate the dish

Place some of the chicken bones at the bottom of the plate as a base, layer the shredded chicken meat on top, and drizzle a small amount of the original sauce over it to finish. When serving, you may garnish the edges with bok choy hearts.