After my mum left to NZ to stay, I missed all her home cooked food and dishes. And lucky for me, when I was young, I used to watch my mum cook this in the kitchen and now roughly I try to replicate her easy and simple version of our Hainanese Chicken Chop!
Simple
Hainanese Chicken Chop
Recipe
source from Mel’s Mum
Serve for
1
Ingredients
1
boneless chicken thigh
1 small
potato, peeled and cut to wedges
1 small
tomato, cut to wedges
1 small
onion, sliced
1-2 tbsp frozen
green peas or canned green peas (light blanched or cook in saucepan)
Oil for
frying
Marinate ingredients
1 tbsp
Worcestershire sauce
Salt
& pepper (add to your preference taste)
2-3 tbsp
plain flour
Sauce
1-2 tbsp
tomato ketchup
1 tsp
worchestershire sauce
½ tsp
sugar
¼ cup water (or slightly more if you prefer more sauce)
Method
Lightly
marinade the chicken thigh with salt and pepper, and add in the 1 tbsp
worchestershire sauce for about 15 minutes.
Before
frying, coat the marinated chicken with plain flour all over, and lightly sprinkle some water to the chicken.
(Don’t wash the bowl that marinate
the chicken)
Add in all
the sauce ingredients into this bowl and mix well. Set aside.
Using a
small saucepan, pour in some oil (about 2”-3” deep) and fry the potato wedges
till brown on the edges. Drain on
paper and sprinkle some salt and pepper. Set aside.
Heat a
frying pan with 2-3 tbsp oil and frying the chicken thigh on low-medium heat on skin side down first then turn the other side till cooked. Dish up and put
to the serving plate.
Pour in
the sliced onions and lightly sauté till soft, add the sauce ingredients
in. Once the sauce comes to boil and thicken
up, remove from heat and pour the sauce mixture onto the chicken chop.
Serve
in with other ingredients; fried potato wedges, tomato and the green peas.
Back in those days, we used the canned green peas........
