Cantonese-style Homemade Soy Sauce Chicken

Method

1. 01

   Step 1

   Pour one bowl of water and one and a half bowls of soy sauce into a pot and bring to a boil.

   

2. 02

   Step 2

   Put the chicken in

   

3. 03

   Step 3

   Add ginger slices

   

4. 04

   Step 4

   Turn the heat down to low and pour the sauce over the chicken, continuing to pour.

   

5. 05

   Step 5

   Poke the chicken leg a few times with chopsticks to help it cook faster, since the meat is thick there.

   

6. 06

   Step 6

   Flip it over after five or six minutes and pour the sauce over it.

   

7. 07

   Step 7

   After about ten minutes, pour half a bowl of cold water evenly over the chicken skin to cool it down and make it more elastic.

   

8. 08

   Step 8

   After bringing the soup to a boil over high heat, turn the heat down to low and continue flipping the broth every five minutes and rinsing it with cold water every ten minutes.

   

9. 09

   Step 9

   After about 30 minutes, insert chopsticks into the chicken leg to check if it's cooked. Since some chickens are bigger and some are smaller, mine was half a chicken and weighed only 1.8 pounds. If it's a whole chicken, it should take about an hour. The chicken is cooked when no blood comes out.

   

10. 10

    Step 10

    Remove from heat and cut into pieces

    

11. 11

    Step 11

    Let's eat!