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
- 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 |
Add Chicken claws and seasoning sauce |
Add rock sugar and 500 ml plain water |