Chinese
Hong Shao Ji Kuai (Red-Braised Chicken with Potato)
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Cut the chicken thighs into large chunks through the bone and peel and cube the potato.
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Heat the oil in a pot over medium-high heat and brown the chicken pieces on all sides, about 5 minutes.
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Add the ginger, garlic and star anise and stir 30 seconds until fragrant.
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Stir in the sugar, both soy sauces and the water, and bring to a boil.
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Add the potato, cover, and simmer 25 minutes, until the chicken is tender and the potato is cooked through.
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Uncover and simmer 5 more minutes to thicken the sauce, then scatter with scallions and serve.
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Serve it with
A Chinese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Hong Shao Ji Kuai (Red-Braised Chicken with Potato), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Hong Shao Ji Kuai (Red-Braised Chicken with Potato) carries gluten and soy. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 530 kcal
- Protein
- 40 g
- Carbs
- 26 g
- Fat
- 30 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 4 g
- Sodium
- 1200 mg
- Saturated fat
- 7 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Hong Shao Ji Kuai (Red-Braised Chicken with Potato) takes about 50 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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