What if you 1. Don't drink 2. Need to get rid of your roommate's beer for reasons?
Here's the solution! Drumsticks came out extra tender, though probably half the beer would have worked better.
Doesn't look as nice since I scored the meat to soak the flavors in.
20 Comments
MohamedMoney@feddit.org · 21 pts · 4d
You know it really, really doesn’t look nice. Maybe share the recipe? Because if someone is willing to eat this it’s gotta have to taste amazing
starlinguk@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 4d
It looks like the chicken drowned tragically.
stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 4d
Biblically accurate chicken with that number of legs.
starlinguk@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d
Another chicken tried to save it and they both perished.
stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 4d
Toss some crushed garlic and ginger slices in a wok. Add the chicken and soy sauce. Once everything is seared nicely, submerge the chicken in beer. Add salt and white pepper to taste, also add about 30g of sugar. Bring it up to a boil then simmer for 60min.
This was done with skin on drumsticks, hence the scoring on the chicken. Otherwise the skin might tighten and the meat ends up bland
MohamedMoney@feddit.org · 3 pts · 4d
Sounds nice, I would enjoy this very much. Is it ok to add a little chili or would that be a Fauxpas?
stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 4d
It's homemade food. Just go with whatever you'd like. Though it looks like YouTube recipe videos add potatoes and red peppers for the simmer.
I just did this the way my grandpa used to make them. Which was probably not the best but very nostalgic to me. There was one time he subbed the beer with baijiu, with disastrous results (the whole chicken turned bitter).
MohamedMoney@feddit.org · 3 pts · 4d
Personally, I’d add a little fruit like peaches or mango and try to minimize the sugar but I just wanted to know if there’s a „right“ way to do it.
Potatoes is a small surprise to me, this screams for rice in my mind 🤷♂️
stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 3d
A lot of Chinese food add sugar but not fruit, since fruit is usually too sweet. Usually anything with msg would also have a few grams of sugar in it as well.
The goal is to add just enough sugar that it tastes different but you can't tell it's sugar.
communism@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 3d
I'm surprised you think so. I think it looks nice. Might be another cultural thing—are you from a culture where it's weird to boil/braise chicken? Some cultures find the boiled chicken skin to be slimy and unpleasant, but it's enjoyed in many parts of Asia.
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2d
Must be a cultural thing because I think it looks great.
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2d
Just fucking eww
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 2d
Boiled chicken skin makes me hurl. That texture is horrible.
stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1d
Hmm... Gotta disagree on that one. Its common in Asian cuisine and I love the texture.
Cheese though... That's a no for me.
iocase@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1d
This looks like a bronze age struggle meal
rhythmisaprancer@quokk.au · 1 pts · 4d
I can't read the 啤酒鸡 and my translator is not working, but I thought of this which I am guessing you had in mind 🙂️
stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 4d
Nope. 醉鸡 is its own higher end thing. 啤酒鸡 is more casual homemade food.
Looking at YouTube, I probably should have added some peppers for color. Though I was more trying to use up the beer since it was about to expire...
rhythmisaprancer@quokk.au · 1 pts · 4d
I do not get good search results with beer chicken 🙁️ not anything like what you have shown. But it is something like drunken chicken, but less fancy?
stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 3d
Not really? One is a hot dish and the other is a cold dish. They're completely different.
If you copy the Chinese name there's a bunch of videos in Chinese, a lot of them seem to be from Taiwan.
rhythmisaprancer@quokk.au · 1 pts · 3d
I watched some videos with subtitles, I see that beer chicken is very different, thanks for sharing and encouraging me to look at videos! One video said that drunken chicken is good for new year, I did not know this.