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One Pot Soy Chicken 🍲

2 words. "ONE POT".

Nothing more magical to us parents who are juggling our 24 hours for family & careers, spurred on by our dreams for our brood.

So why not marinade in the same pot where the dish will also be cooked??? 🤩 Why not!

Hurrah for fewer dishes to wash after dinner, and more time for meaningful conversations and catching up with each one's day... 




🍲 Ingredients
  • Soy sauce
  • Knob of ginger, crushed
  • Toasted garlic paste.
  • Black pepper.
  • Cooking wine.
  • 1 pk chicken thigh.
  • 2 tbsp
  • water.

🍲 Steps- Marinate
  1. Add all marinade ingredients in a mixing bowl. Mix well.
  2. In the pot apppropriate for cooking, add the meat to marinate.
  3. Pour on the marinade, mix well and massage into the meat's every nook & cranny.
  4. Cover with plastic wrap.
  5. Keep in the fridge for at most 24hours.
🍲 Steps- Cook
  1. Take out the pot from fridge, and let it rest at room temperature for 10 minutes.
  2. Fire up the required cooking top- stove, oven, grill, etc.
  3. Pour out the marinade and set it aside for the sauce.
  4. Get cookin!  On medium heat, add a tbsp of oil.
  5. Flip the meat skin side first. Cook for 5minutes.
  6. Flip to other side, cook for 5minutes. 
  7. Add the marinade.
  8. Cover with lid.
  9. Simmer.
  10. Check the meat if cooked and tender, otherwise cook a few minutes more each side.
  11. Garnish with spring onion, and chilis (optional).
  12. Enjoy!


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