Braised Chicken with Chestnuts🌰栗子燒雞🐔

Braised Chicken with Chestnuts is a traditional Shanghainese dish, and Fall is the best season for Chestnuts. Although fresh chestnuts used to be commonly used in this dish, frozen fresh chestnuts are more readily available in the States, you can get it from the frozen section of almost all the Asian supermarkets.

Ingredients:

1 lb chicken pieces (bite sizes)

1/2 frozen chestnuts

some ginger slices

chopped garlic

chopped scallions

dark soy sauce

cooking wine

Instructions:

1.Heat oil in a pot or pan, add ginger & garlic for about 3 mins.

2.Add chicken in it, and add a spoon of cooking wine, make sure you stir it. 

3.Add the chestnuts, and add 2-3 spoons of dark soy sauce (depends on how you like it), keep stirring it,  and add a bowl of water.

4.Put the lid on, use low heat to cook for another 25 mins.

5.Add some peppers if you like, and put the chopped scallions on top to decorate the dish!

Yum yum!!!