【Ingredients】
500 grams of chestnuts, 4 chicken thighs, ginger, shallots, garlic, star anise, cinnamon (cinnamon at will), 3 to 4 pieces of rock sugar, 1 spoon of light soy sauce, a little dark soy sauce, and a bottle of beer (about 580 ml).
【Steps】
Cut the chicken thighs into cubes, put ginger slices in a pot under cold water, put ginger slices in cooking wine, skim off the foam after boiling, remove and wash for later use.
Prepare slices of green onion and ginger, and prepare the skin of star anise.
Pour oil into a pan over low heat, add rock sugar when the oil is hot, turn on low heat and slowly boil, until the rock sugar is about caramel color, pour in the blanched chicken pieces, stir-fry for one to two minutes to color. At this time, the heat must be mastered, the chicken nuggets will be sweet too early, the color can not be wrapped, and it will be pasty too late, and the taste will be bitter, in short, the whole process should be on low fire.
Then add dark soy sauce and light soy sauce and stir-fry evenly, at this time the color is already darker.
At this time, it is time for chestnuts to appear, chestnuts can be peeled by themselves, or you can buy the kind of chestnuts that are peeled and ready-made, frozen chestnuts are not recommended to buy, they do not taste good. Personally, I still recommend buying the kind of peeled chestnuts, which is more time-saving.
After the chestnuts are put into the pot, after stir-frying evenly, you can pour in the beer and try the taste yourself, if the taste is not enough, you can add some salt to adjust the taste. Cover and burn over medium heat for about half an hour, turning it several times halfway to make it evenly heated.
After 30 minutes, reduce the juice on high heat, and finally add some shallots to garnish, if not, you can not add it.
Sweet and fluffy chestnuts are also a great choice for dishes. The most common dish made with chestnuts is chestnut stewed chicken, which has a rich soup, tender chicken, and soft chestnut flavor, and can be done with a bottle of beer!