soft tender chicken braids in a
beautiful soy and spiced broth
this is one of my all-time family
favorites I can't wait to share it with
you guys my mum's beggar's chicken
mm-hmm great and uh thanks mom oh not as
good as yours little bit I didn't mind
no you're just saying that cause
everyone's watching okay good that's
nice thanks mom
so I'm not sure why is this cold biggest
chicken my mom calls it biggest chicken
but there are lots of other recipes that
look nothing like this one that are
called biggest chicken anyway whatever
it's called we call it the most amazing
chicken in the world in my house it's a
firm favorite and it's super easy to
make so the first thing we need to do is
make a really lovely garlicky coriander
and pepper paste so I'm gonna start off
with some garlic cloves
I just want to bruise those so I can get
the skins off and to that I want to add
some coriander root so you will have
noticed that in a lot of my mom and my
Thai recipes we start out a lot of the
time with this coriander garlic and
pepper paste it's a very traditional old
school tie paste and it's the basis for
a lot of recipes so you just want the
root hot that's got all the flavor that
we want save those leaves for later and
then a little bit of salt the salt helps
to break down the fibers when we're
using the mortar and pestle and then a
little bit of white pepper as well I've
also done this with black peppercorns so
you could totally substitute that and
then just pound this to a rough case
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okay so this is the kind of texture that
you're looking for and then into a stock
part or something that's large enough to
hold the whole chicken I'm gonna add a
little bit of oil and the whole point of
this is that we're gonna layer some
really beautiful flavors starting off
with the paste I love that smell it's
such a comforting smell it reminds me so
much of my mom's kitchen and then add
your chicken in now just get this guy a
couple of swirls in here just make sure
that garlic paste isn't burning at the
bottom this must start to kind of get
some of those chickeny flavors going in
here and now I'm gonna start adding all
the aromatics so I've got some star anis
and cinnamon stick and some soy sauce so
first of all I need some light soy sauce
and that's just a regular Chinese soy
sauce it's called white but that's
merely just to differentiate it from the
dark soy sauce so that's gonna go in
and then now here I have some sweet dark
soy sauce this is a little thicker than
regular dark soy sauce it has a bit more
of a molasses kind of flavor if you're
in Australia or you're near an Asian
grocer you can also use what's called
ketchup manners which is the Indonesian
version anyway what you're looking for
is a sweet dark soy sauce so that's what
you want this is gonna give us a
beautiful color and a little bit of
sweetness and now I add in some water
you want enough stir that about
three-quarters of the chicken is covered
now just make sure those spices are in
the broth sit around release some of
that paste from the bottom so it'll burn
and then the lid goes on and you want to
gently simmer this for about 90 minutes
halfway through I like to kind of give
the chicken a flip over just so I get a
nice even color and everything what
you're looking for is for that chicken
to really start to almost fall off the
bone it should be that tender so this
chicken recipe has quite the reputation
in my family my dad reckons that when my
mom first made it for him that's when he
knew that he was gonna ask her to marry
him so there you go the marriage
proposal chicken and here are some
photos of my mom and dad before they got
married
that's my dad he's Australian and
there's my mum being all fancy and have
fun she looks so styling
Wow so this chicken is really smelling
so amazing it's one of the things that I
love about this dish it's like when it's
cooking it just fills your whole house
with happiness I love it okay let's have
a look at how I go ah look at that
beautiful color mmm okay it's Oh time to
get this guy out onto a serving dish and
be gentle here because that chicken will
be a little delicate
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and then one last thing to do is check
the broth for seasoning
complex flavor is so delicious just a
little background note of the star anis
and the cinnamon and then the beautiful
saltiness from the soy sauce mmm so good
does need a little bit of salt which you
might be surprised about because of the
amount of dark soy sauce we added but
dark soy sauce is actually less salty
than regular soy sauce it's just got a
little bit more sweetness so I do need
to add a little bit of salt here and
then at my house we serve this family
style so we serve the chicken out on the
table some of this broth goes over the
top
and I like to have some rice with some
noodles nearby to really soak up but let
you me sauce and just a little bit of
coriander on the top as well so there
you go guys my mum's family recipe for
beggar's chicken a favorite at my house
I hope your family loves it too and
can't wait to dig in here YUM so good if
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