Spicy Korean Style Soy Braised Chicken. In Korea, braised chicken dishes are usually made with a whole chicken cut up, but you can use pre-cut parts if you want. However, for this dish, you'll still need to When I was a small child, my parents raised a few chickens in our backyard. I remember feeding baby chicks and watching them grow.
Ingredients of Spicy Korean Style Soy Braised Chicken
- Prepare 3 pounds of bone-in, skin-on chicken drums, thighs, or whole wings.
- It's of salt.
- Prepare 1 Tablespoon of oil.
- You need 1 of large potato, peeled and cut into 1.5-inch cubes.
- Prepare 1 of medium yellow onion, sliced into 1/2" thick slices, vertically.
- You need 1/2 of a bell pepper (any color), sliced into 1/2" thick slices, vertically.
- It's 5 cloves of garlic, peeled and smashed.
- It's of optional: 1 or 2 jalapeños or serranos, halved.
- Prepare 1 cup of rice wine (I used Korean rice wine, but you can use a drier sake, or even a drier white wine in a pinch).
- It's 1/4 cup of regular soy sauce.
- It's 2 Tablespoons of gochujang (Korean red chili paste - you can use sriracha as a substitute if you don't have gochujang).
- Prepare 3 Tablespoons of white sugar.
This lovely warming chicken noodle stew with carrots and potatoes looks and tastes familiar but still manages to be exotic. We eat Jjimdak in my hometown, but, it is slightly different from the Andong one. It is spicier and less sweet. Home » BBQ & Meats » Jjimdak - Soy sauce braised chicken.
Spicy Korean Style Soy Braised Chicken step by step
- Lightly season the chicken pieces on both sides with salt..
- In a large pot or Dutch oven, sear each piece of chicken in the Tablespoon of oil over medium high heat in for 3 minutes per side and set aside, outside of your pot..
- In the same pot, saute the onion, bell pepper, potatoes, chilies, and garlic until the onions begin to turn translucent, about 2 minutes or so..
- Turn the heat down to medium, pour in the wine, and deglaze the pan, scraping all the yummy chicken fond off the bottom of the pan..
- Add in the rest of the seasoning ingredients - soy sauce, gochujang, sugar - and stir to mix and incorporate all seasonings thoroughly..
- Add chicken back in the pot in one layer, turn the heat back up to medium high, and bring to a gentle boil (this should take 3 or 4 minutes)..
- Turn the heat down to medium low and simmer with the lid slightly askew for 20 minutes..
- Flip each piece of chicken and let it braise on the other side, uncovered, for another 25 minutes..
I would say it ranks as the second most popular chicken dish in Korea, after Korean-style fried chicken. The dish originates from a Korean city called Andong, but is now ubiquitous in Korea. This Spicy Chicken Stew is the easiest chicken dish I have prepared - simply dump everything in the pot! Simmer then add in potatoes halfway and Its unique flavour is what makes this dish delicious! The other essential condiment is light soy sauce which most of us will have if we have a well-stocked.