Bitter Melon Roasted Chicken

Overview

How to cook Bitter Melon Roasted Chicken at home

Tags

• hot dishes
• home cooking
• old man
• summer recipes
• lunch
• bitter melon
• chicken essence
• garlic
• lilac
• old ginger
• oyster sauce
• potatoes
• rooster meat
• sanna
• star anise
• zanthoxylum bungeanum
• bell pepper
• carrot
• fragrant leaves
• salt

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Pour an appropriate amount of oil into the pot, put the blanched chicken into the pot and stir-fry to dry out the chicken moisture

   

2. 2 Add ginger, star anise, Sichuan peppercorns and sautee until fragrant

   

3. 3 Add a spoonful of Pixian douban and saute until fragrant

   

4. 4 Add water to the pot to cover the chicken pieces a little, then add fennel and bay leaves and cook for half an hour until the chicken is tender

   

5. 5 Cut potatoes and carrots into cubes and set aside

   

6. 6 Cut the bitter melon into pieces, blanch it with the carrots in a pan and let it cool until set aside. When blanching, add a little salt to the water to make the bitter melon greener

   

7. 7 When the chicken is almost cooked, add the potatoes and continue cooking

   

8. 8 When there is not much water left in the pot, about forty minutes after the chicken has been cooked, add the blanched bitter melon, carrots, an appropriate amount of salt, and a spoonful of oyster sauce. Continue cooking for three minutes, then add the diced bell pepper and garlic cloves and cook for another two minutes

   

9. 9 Add a little chicken essence, collect the water, remove from the pot, plate, and enjoy