Braised Chicken Claws

 

Braised chicken feet is one of the popular dim sum dishes. Having seeing the plump chicken feet you will know it has gone through so much cooking (deep-frying and braising) With this it has absorbed so much flavor and it’s such a slurp slurpy treat to enjoy like I do.






Braised Chicken Claw

Ingredient 
  • 500 gm chicken claws
  • Sufficient cooking oil for deep fry
Preparing Chicken Claws
  • Wash, using a chopping knife cut off the nails from the feet.
  • Wash with salt and pat dry chicken claws and deep fry until brown. 
  • Remove and immerse into a pot of plain water. 
  • Soak it for 20 minutes or until skin puff up. Drain and set aside
Note:
These day you can easily buy ready fried chicken feet since they are easily available. 
This spares and ease us from splatting oil during frying. ( The choice is yours to choose)

Ingredient for Seasoning 
  • 1 tablespoon premium oyster sauce
  • 2 tablespoon light soya sauce
  • 1/2 tablespoon of dark soya sauce
  • 2 tablespoon of plain water 
Ingredient A
  • 5 cm smash ginger
  • 4 pip smash garlic 
  • 4 pcs dry chilli 
  • 2 star anise
  • 1/2 teaspoon salted bean paste 
  • 8 pcs rock sugar 
  • 500 ml plain water
Ingredient- Others
  • 1 tsp corn flour + 2 tablespoon plain  water
  • 3 tablespoon cooking oil

Direction 
  • Heat up 3 tablespoon of cooking oil . 
  • Saute ginger, garlic, dry chilli, star anise and bean paste until fragrant.
  • Add Chicken claws, seasoning sauce, rock sugar and water and mixed well. 
  • Leave to boil,  then lower  heat to simmer until tender as per preference.(est: 30 mins) 
  • After 30 minutes add cornstarch solution as per preference desire thickening consistency. Simmer for another 2 minutes.
  • Dish to serve.
 
Step by step

 
Heat up 3 tablespoon of cooking oil 

Saute ginger, garlic, dry chilli and star anise until fragrant

 Seasoning sauce

Add Chicken claws and  seasoning sauce

Add rock sugar and 500 ml plain water 

Add in salted bean paste 

Leave to boil and then lower the heat to simmer until tender as per preference
(estimated  30 minutes) closing the lid. After 30 minutes add cornstarch solution as per preference desire thickening consistency. Simmer for another 2 minutes. 
Braised Chicken Claws