Spiced Braised Chicken

Recipe Ingredients

2 1/2 cups	592ml	Water
1/2 cup	118ml	Soy sauce
1/4 cup	59ml	Rice wine or chicken broth
2 tablespoons	30ml	Sugar
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Aniseed or fennel seed
1		Cinnamon stick
		One orange - zest of
4		Fresh ginger
1/4 teaspoon	1.3ml	Red pepper flakes
4		Green onions - sliced thin
4		Chicken breast halves - boned
		Skin removed
2 teaspoons	10ml	Cornstarch in 1 tb water
3 cups	480g / 16oz	Rice - cooked
1		Green onion - sliced thin for

Recipe Instructions

In a large pan combine water, soy sauce, sugar, aniseed, cinnamon, zest, ginger, green onions and red pepper flakes. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for ten minutes. Add chicken and simmer for about 30 minutes or until chicken is cooked through. Remove chicken from pan.

Strain 2 cups of the pan juices and bring to a boil in a skillet. Add cornstarch mix and boil a few minutes to thicken. Add chicken, stirring to coat and heat through. Serve chicken and sauce over cooked rice and garnish with green onions.

NOTE: it is easiest to remove zest with a vegetable peeler, when needing strips.

Source:
Cooking Light, Sept 1994, page 102

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