Braised Chicken with Smoked Ham, Chestnuts, and Ginger

Name: Braised Chicken with Smoked Ham, Chestnuts, and Ginger
Prep time: 5 h
Cook time: 5 h
Total time: 5 h
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 198 grams bottled roasted chestnuts; 1 kilograms small chickens , each cut into 6 pieces (legs, thighs, and breasts without backbones); 2 Tbsps corn oil; 2 Tbsps cornstarch; 113 grams thinly sliced country ham or speck; 118 milliliters dry white wine; 59 milliliters finely julienned peeled ginger; 237 milliliters sliced peeled ginger; 1 Tbsp kosher salt, divided; 591 milliliters reduced-sodium chicken broth; 12 dried Chinese black mushrooms; 177 milliliters Shaoxing wine or dry Oloroso Sherry; 2 Tbsps soy sauce; 4 teaspoons sugar; 355 milliliters cold water, divided; 1 teaspoon white pepper

Braised Chicken with Smoked Ham, Chestnuts, and Ginger

Braised Chicken with Smoked Ham, Chestnuts, and Ginger is a gluten free and dairy free main course. This recipe serves 8. One serving contains 497 calories, 33g of protein, and 28g of fat. This recipe covers 18% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. 1 person found this recipe to be scrumptious and satisfying. Head to the store and pick up chicken broth, chickens, cornstarch, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the ginger you could follow this main course with the Ginger Cake with Crystallized Ginger Frosting as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 5 hours.

Instructions

Bring water to a simmer in a small saucepan, then stir in mushrooms and simmer 10 minutes. Cool to room temperature, then strain through a sieve into a large bowl. Discard stems, then chill mushroom caps, covered, until ready to braise chicken. Stir remaining marinade ingredients into mushroom liquid, then add chicken and marinate, chilled, stirring occasionally, 1 day.

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Mushrooms

Marinade

Whole Chicken

Water

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Sauce Pan

Sieve

Bowl

Remove chicken from marinade and pat dry (discard marinade).

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Marinade

Whole Chicken

Heat oil in a 12-inch heavy nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Just before browning each batch of chicken, sprinkle with 1 teaspoon kosher salt. Brown, skin side down first, about 3 minutes per side.

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Kosher Salt