Isabelles Amazing Asian Chicken

Isabelles Amazing Asian Chicken

In a large pot put:
2 cups brown sugar
1 1/4 cups soy sauce
1 1/4 cups rice wine
2 cups chicken stock
3-4 star anise
1 cinnamon stick
6 or so thick slices of ginger (no need to peel it)
couple of tsp szechuan pepper corns (or just plain black ones)

bring this to the boil, turn it down and whack in the chicken, breast side down. Put on the lid and leave it for half an hour. Turn the chicken over and cook for another half to three quarters of an hour, depending on the size of your chook.

Take the chicken out, cover it in foil and leave it for 20 mins.

Take out a couple of ladles of the cooking liquid and put it in a smaller pot and bring it back to the boil and reduce it until it's thick to make a sauce to pour over the chicken, once you've cut it up and stuck in on some rice.

It's really nice served with chinese greens cooked in a little sesame oil, sesame seeds and oyster sauce.

(courtesy Isabelle