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Three Cup Chicken
Three Cup Chicken
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| Prep Time | 10 minutes |
| Cook Time | 45 minutes |
| Servings |
2-4 servings
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Ingredients
- 8 chicken drumsticks chopped
- 1/4 cup sesame oil
- 1/4 cup rice cooking wine or Shaoxing rice wine
- 1/4 cup light soy sauce not low sodium soy sauce
- 15 grams rock sugar raw cane sugar
- 32 grams Ginger peeled & thinly sliced
- 14 cloves garlic peeled and crushed
- 3 dried Chinese red chili
- 1/2 tablespoon dark soy sauce
- 10-16 fresh Thai basil leaves
Ingredients
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Instructions
- Prepare Pressure Cooker: Heat up your pressure cooker over medium heat (Instant Pot: press Sauté button). Make sure your pot is as hot as it can be (Instant Pot: wait until indicator says HOT).
- Sauté Ginger and Garlic: Add
1/4 cup sesame oil,1 ounce sliced ginger, and14 garlic cloves in the pressure cooker. Sauté for 30 seconds until fragrant. - Sauté Chicken Drumsticks: Add in the chopped or whole chicken drumsticks. Then, sauté for 3 minutes. Pour in ¼ cup (63ml) rice cooking wine and let it boil for a minute to evaporate some of the alcohol content.
- Add
1/4 cup light soy sauce,3 dried Chinese red chili, and1 tablespoon rock sugar. Close the lid and pressure cook at For Chopped Chicken Drumsticks: High Pressure for 5 minutes + 10 minutes Natural Release or For Whole Chicken Drumsticks: High Pressure for 8 minutes + 10 minutes Natural Release. Open the lid carefully. - Thicken Sauce: Place chicken pieces in a large serving bowl. Heat up your pressure cooker (Instant Pot: press Sauté button), and bring the sauce back to a boil. Add in roughly
1/2 tablespoon dark soy sauce to give it some color and sweeten it a little. - Optional: Mix
2 tablespoons of cornstarch with2 tablespoons of water and stir the mixture into the sauce one third at a time until desired thickness. - Taste & Adjust Seasoning: Taste the sauce and adjust seasoning with more light soy sauce if necessary. Stir in
10 – 16 fresh Thai basil leaves. - Serve: Pour the sauce into the large serving bowl with chicken. Mix well. Serve immediately with your favorite side dish.
Amy and Jacky are a husband and wife team behind pressurecookrecipes.com. Born and raised in families from the restaurant industry, they have what they have coined “foodie genes”. Surrounded by so much food growing up and in their own food media company they started on their own, they fell in love with every aspect of food from photography to recipe development. In their exploration of delicious food and cooking techniques, they stumbled across pressure cooking and more importantly, Instant Pot! Amy and Jacky started their blog to bring happiness to the world through good food that is easy to make and delicious to eat! They want all of their readers to feel inspired and excited when cooking with their very own pressure cooker.
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This is NOT a keto recipe! Sugar isnt allowed in any form when eating keto.
Not keto at all please remove from list of keto. This recipe calls for 15g of sugar
Nope not keto. It calls for 15g of sugar. I might try to make this with stevia or erythritol to see how it turns out.
No keto. Is good receipe. To make it keto friendly DO NOT add sugar.
I would use less sesame oil next time. The oil overtook the basil, ginger and garlic flavours so that’s something to watch for!