Coca cola Chicken Wings
Friday, July 28, 2006
I like simple home cooked Chinese food. This is a tasty dish popular in China which I like because you just can't screw it up no matter how drunk/stupid you are. (Just remember to turn off the gas when you're finished)
Disclaimer: I'm no chef. I don't know the correct terminology for what I'm going to describe here. But as they say in New Zealand..
She'll be right mate.
Ingredients
Chicken Wings
Garlic
Ginger
Coca cola
Bai Jiu (Chinese White Spirit)
A little MSG or Salt (to taste)
Honey
Whiskey (if desired)
Instructions
Dice some garlic and ginger. I always say you can never have too much garlic, but easy on the ginger though. Don't chop the ginger too finely so you can pick it out later. No one likes crunching down on a big chunk of ginger when they expected sweet chickeny goodness. Pour a little oil in your wok, one with a lid if possible, turn on the heat and add your ginger, garlic and your chicken wings.
Slightly brown the chicken wings. Don't worry about not cooking too thoroughly, nothing will survive the sticky bubbling magma of boiling hot Coca cola that will ensue. Add just enough Coca cola to cover your wings.
Optional: When the Coke begins to bubble, add a dollop of honey, a splash of bai jiu and maybe a little MSG (if you're Chinese) to taste. I don't know what the bai jiu does for the flavour but I like cooking with alcohol. (easy tiger, save some for the gan beis) The honey is a little unnecessary given the high sugar content of the coke, but hey who am I to change a winning formula?
If possible cover the Wok and leave to simmer until the coke has boiled down into a sticky mess which will now have glazed your chicken wings. Meanwhile, mix the remainder of the Coke with your whiskey in a tumbler with lots of ice and return to reading this blog.
posted by riceagain @ 2:50 PM,
11 Comments:
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At 12:17 PM,
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At 5:21 PM,
Glen said...
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At 2:33 PM,
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shit! we ate coca cola kenfucky dead chook last night *ahem* coca cola chicken - a la jihyun style (learnt from the master 丹丹)。 however it was cooked with the most blasphemous of blasphemes - pepsi; and no garlic was in sight, therefore turning it into nogarlicpepsichickendoesnttasteasgoodastheoriginal - otherwise known as didi burger ;)
mmmmm...didi burger.... can you fed-ex me some? -
At 2:33 PM,
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shit! we ate coca cola kenfucky dead chook last night *ahem* coca cola chicken - a la jihyun style (learnt from the master 丹丹)。 however it was cooked with the most blasphemous of blasphemes - pepsi; and no garlic was in sight, therefore turning it into nogarlicpepsichickendoesnttasteasgoodastheoriginal - otherwise known as didi burger ;)
mmmmm...didi burger.... can you fed-ex me some? -
At 12:25 AM,
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At 10:39 PM,
mark said...
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Great!
A Taiwanese friend of mine cooked this dish for me once, and said it was Taiwanese. That would make sense - a dish created out of the US military presence in Taiwan up until 1979. And now having migrated to China. That transnational cultural flow for you. -
At 1:18 PM,
Ian Monroe said...
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Ok, well no frackin doubt about it, I will make this.
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At 6:10 PM,
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lolz,I used to cook that dish,its called ke le ji chi( 可乐鸡翅）
ps: wherever this dish is originally from, mainland or taiwan,it is chinese cusine anyway, -
At 11:30 AM,
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about cultural transition... I work with a Chinese sushi chef who made this recipe after getting an email from a friend of hers in China. She brought some wings to me from home and !!!!! This recipe has no ketchup
adds brown sugar, fennel cinnamon, clove, red pepper flakes, mollases, and soy sauce. From U.S. to China and back twice -
At 7:43 PM,
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I also live in Jiangsu (Taizhou) as an English teacher. Where did you come up with this recipe?
