Crescent Chicken Wings
10 Nov 2011 Comments Off
Here in the states people go nuts over chicken wings. There are whole restaurants dedicated to just chicken wings. You can get them with all kinds of sauces and marinates. I had many variations, some quite excellent and others just not really good!
When I went to school in Oxford, England I lived with 6 other people in a dorm, over there its called Halls. We were a interesting mix. Two blokes from England, girl form Thailand, boy from Sri Lanka and then a girl from China. My culinary enthusiasm took flight really there, I learned something new on regular basis… ehmm school wise not so much. My education vastly improved in the kitchen. I learned something about Indian food, Pakistani food, Thai food, Scottish food and REAL Chinese food.
Did you know that they don’t have ovens in China!!! I had no idea!! I had to teach my flat mate how to make Pizza, to her it mind boggling! She taught me how to make these Chicken Wings that are sooooo YUMMY! with a little kick!
Huifang always got the fresh chicken wings and cut them up herself. So that is what I do too. I’m sure you can use the precut ones, but since I learned it this way and its cheaper I do it the old fashion way 
You get how ever many chicken wings and you cut them up in three sections, just where the joints are. It’s good to have a really sharp knife or kitchen scissor because I didn’t and now I have this massive blister on my finger!!
Once you part them at the joints you discard the little piece at the end. You could use it to make chicken broth but I just throw it away. Now you cut ginger and chili finely (I had dried chili available so I just used that). Add it to a big bowl, then add good measure of Soy sauce and Dark Soy sauce, it has to be dark soy sauce because if you just use soy sauce it will become way way to salty!! Next you add a good amount of sugar, mix it well together.
Add the chicken Wings and let marinate for at least an hour.
Then chop up a few cloves of garlic and fry them on a pan with oil. Be careful not to make them crisp. Add the chicken wings with the marinade.
Let it simmer for a while, make sure the chicken is getting cooked evenly. I put on a lid just so to make sure it cooked evenly. Kind of cheating but with chicken you can never be to careful! So after I was confident it had cooked almost all the way, I took the lid off and let it simmer for a while to get the marinate reduced. It should get sticky. Put it on a plate and it is ready to be served.
Crescent Chicken Wings
Chicken Wings, how ever many you like
1 part Soy Sauce
1 part Dark Soy Sauce
1 part Sugar
1-2 tbsp ginger, finely chopped
1-4 fresh chili peppers, just depends how much kick you want, just remember if you leave in the seeds its hotter.
2-3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
Cut up the chicken into parts, discard the wing tip. Stir together both the soy sauces, sugar, ginger and chili and the chicken wings. Let marinate for at least and hour. Fry in a pan the garlic and then add the chicken wings and fry them for a minute or two, pour in the rest of the marinate. Simmer until the chicken wings are fully cooked. The marinate should reduce to a sticky syrup. Remove from pan and serve.
haffah
