Category Archives: Chicken

Mixed Vegetable Chicken Soup

1. Pour in enough water in a deep pot.

2. Put in chicken. I used several chicken drumsticks.

3. Turn to high heat. When the water boils, turn to low heat. And slow cook for half an hour.

4. Add in corn & carrot chunks. Cook for another half an hour.

5. Add in snow peas and boil for another 3 mins.


6. Sprinkle some salt and serve hot.


Yummy Buttermilk Fried Chicken


I used chicken drumsticks. They are small and easy to fry.

Sprinkle a little salt and black pepper over chicken. Massage them a bit.

Place them in a bowl, pour in enough Buttermilk.


Marinate for at least 30 mins.

Here is the Frying powder I used.


It already contains seasoning and spices, that’s why I only used a little salt and black pepper to marinate chicken.

Dip marinated chicken drumsticks in the frying powder. Then dip buttermilk and frying powder again to let chicken double coated by powder.

Fry chicken in oil till golden brown.


Turns out that double coated fried chicken taste more crispy outside and tender inside. Very delicious.

Chicken & Green Onion Stewers

I used chicken breast.

1. Cut chicken breast into one-bite pieces.

2. Marinate chicken with 3 tsp soy sauce, 2 tsp cooking wine, chopped garli (2 cloves), a little chopped ginger, 4 tsp sugar and 1 tsp cornstarch for 10-15 mins.

3. Cut green onion into small pieces similar to the size of chicken pieces.

4. I used toothpick to make two pieces of chicken with green onion in between them.


5. Brush a little oil in the pan. Turn to medium high heat. When the pan is very hot. Put chicken & green onion stewers in.

6. Pan fry each side till golden brown.

Cheesy Vegetable Chicken Rolls

I found this recipe on Weibo.

1. Prepare a pices of boneless chicken leg. And a larger piece of aluminum foil.

2. Brush foil with olive oil. Then spread chicken on it with skin side down. 

3. Sprinkle some salt on chicken.


4. Put one piece of cheese at one end of the chicken.


5. Put vegetable shreds on it. I chose cucumber, carrot and celery. Spread some corn starch at the rest part of chicken.


6. Roll the chicken from one side to another. Tie it with kitchen twine tightly. And sprinkle some salt and black pepper on the roll.


7. Put chicken roll at one end of foil. Roll the foil up. And tigh two ends.


8. Preheat oven to 200 degree C. Around 30 mins.

9. Heat a little oil in the pan. Put chicken roll in the pan. Fry till skin becomes golden brown.

10. Take off the kitchen twine and cut into small pieces.



Roasted Half Chicken

I found this recipe on Weibo.

Sauce:

Soy sauce 30g

Oyster sauce 20g

Tomato sauce 18g

Sugar 18g

Cooking wine 18g

Minced garlic 10g

1. Mix all the ingredients above in a bowl.

2. Put half chicken in a plastic bag. Then pour the sauce into the bag.

3. Gently massage the chicken to let it be coated with sauce. ( I poked the chicken several times with a toothpick before this step.)

4. Let the chicken stay in sauce bag for hours. Or you can put it in the fridge for overnight.

5. Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Wipe the chicken with kitchen towel. Original recipe said to brush butter onto chicken, but I used olive oil instead. And also sprinkle some black pepper.

6. Put chicken on grilled and roast for 40 mins. If you want the color to be darker. You can turn to 220 degree at the last 5-10 mins.

Sweet & Sour Chicken Meatball


Chicken meatball was bought from supermarket.

1. Melt some butter in the pan. Put in chicken meatball. Pan fry them till the surface becomes a bit golden brown.

2. Add in 3 or 4 tsp tomato sauce and 2 tsp sugar. Stir them well to let meatball be coated with sauce.

3. Pour in water reaches half height of meatball.

4. Turn to medium low heat. Cover the pan with lid. Simmer for around 30 mins or till sauce becomes condensed. Flip them several times while simmering.

5. Once sauce becomes condensed, they are ready to serve.

Roasted Chicken Leg With Basil, Tomato & Garlic


1. Put chicken legs in the baking bowl. 

2. Spread several basil leaves.

3. Cut small tomatoes into half pieces. And sprinkle in the space of baking bowl with some garlic cloves.

4. Sprinkle salt and black pepper.

5. Spread some olive oil onto all ingredients. Use finger to brush chicken leg with olive oil.

6. 175 degree, 90 mins.



It can be served with pasta. Baked tomato is perfect for pasta.

Korean Style Fried Chicken


I used chicken wing sticks, because they are small and easy to fry.

1. Marinate chicken wing sticks with a little salt and black pepper. Massage them a bit.

2. Coat them with corn starch.

3. Add enough oil in the pan. Actually, I didn’t deep fry them. I just used oil half height of the chicken wing sticks.

4. When the oil is heated, put in chicken wing sticks. Fry till golden brown. I fried around 20 mins. If you deep fry, it will be around 10 mins.

5. Take fried chicken wing stick out. Heat the oil again. Fry them for another 5 mins. 


6. Leave a little oil in the pan. Put in chopped garlic and stir fry a bit.

7. Add in 1 tsp light soy sauce, 2 tsp Korean sweet & hot chili sauce, 3 tsp honey, and 1/2 tsp water. Stir evenly. 

8. Put fried chicken in the pan when the sauce boils. Stir fry evenly till chicken coated with sauce evenly.

Glutinous Rice Chicken Soup


Glutinous rice needs to be soaked in water for overnight.

Stuff chicken with glutinous rice, 3 or 4 garlic cloves, 2 or 3 red dates. And then tight the chicken up in case the stuff inside run out.

Put chicken in a large deep pot. Add in enough water. Make spring onion a knot, then add in the pot with several ginger slices.


1. Turn to high heat. When the soup boils, remove the foam on the surface. 

2. Then turn to low heat and cook for 45 mins.

3. Turn off the stove and keep the lid on for another one hour.

4. Sprinkle salt. Turn on low heat and braise for another half an hour.

5. Sprinkle some chopped spring onion. And ready to serve.



Chicken tastes soft and juice. You can serve with kimchi.

There will be a lot of soup left. Please don’t throw away. It can be reserved in a bottle and placed in the fridge.