How Do You Cook Shoyu Chicken?
Shoyu Chicken is a great alternative to basics you have been cooking your family lately. Shoyu, which is Japanese for sauce, combined with the sweet of sugar and spice of garlic and ginger will have your loved ones asking for seconds and thirds. Extremely easy to make, compliment your Shoyu Chicken with white rice or noodles. In preparation for cooking Shoyu Chicken, there are some things you need to do first. If you are using fresh garlic and ginger, dice finely. In regards to the sweet onion, you can either dice it or julienne it, the preference is up to you. Carefully clean the chicken in water. If you want to cut some fat, remove all skin from your chicken thighs/legs. In a large pot mix together soy sauce, brown sugar, chicken broth, sweet onion, garlic and ginger. Stir together over medium heat until all ingredients are combined and mixture begins to boil. Once mixture is at a rolling boil, carefully add chicken thighs/legs one at a time. With a ladle, spoon coat chicken with sau
Last year, my husband and I took a dream vacation to Hawaii. We got to tour most of the islands and saw all sides of Hawaii, from Honolulu and the glitzy beach resorts to little towns well off the main tourist track. Everywhere we went, we could count on finding an ubiquitous dish called shoyu chicken. Sometimes it came served with exotic garnishes, usually in the fancier restaurants, and sometimes it came straight out of the cooker and served on paper plates from some roadside stand, but it was always delicious. When we got home, I knew I had to try cooking some shoyu in my own kitchen. There must be thousands of different recipes for this dish. The differences are mainly in the ingredients for the sauce, but even the chicken itself can be cooked any way you like, from boiling in a pot to baking in the oven to grilling on the barbecue. No matter the recipe, one ingredient you’ll always find is soy sauce. That’s because that’s what shoyu means–soy sauce. If you want, you can just call
