Pan-fried Chicken Thighs With Oyster Sauce And Asian Sides
  1. Salt the chicken thighs and place skin-side down in a cold pan with no oil

  2. Cook on low heat to render the fat until golden brown and the chicken releases naturally

  3. Turn the chicken over and paint generously with oyster sauce

  4. Bake in the oven at 180°C for 5 minutes

  5. Remove from oven and baste with rendered fat

  6. Transfer chicken to a 50°C oven to keep warm while making the pan sauce

  7. In the same pan, cook diced shallots until translucent

  8. Add minced ginger and garlic, cook for about 1 minute

  9. Deglaze the pan with dry vermouth and reduce until jammy

  10. Add light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, and mirin, cook for 1 minute

  11. Add chicken stock and reduce until the spatula traces through

  12. Turn off heat and whisk in cold butter until emulsified

  13. Taste and adjust seasoning, finish with fresh lime juice

  14. For the cabbage: cut into quarters and fry on both sides in olive oil

  15. Braise the cabbage in water with salt, rice wine vinegar, and mirin for 20 minutes with lid on

  16. Reserve the braising liquid for cooking rice

  17. Make herbed cream by blending crème fraîche, white miso, toasted sesame oil, minced garlic, ginger, lime juice, parsley, coriander, and salt

  18. Cook rice using 1.5 times the braising liquid to rice by weight, bring to boil, reduce heat, cover for 10 minutes

  19. Turn off heat and let rice rest covered for 5 minutes

  20. For broccoli: heat olive oil on medium, add tender stem broccoli and turn as it browns

  21. Remove broccoli and add chili oil to the pan

  22. Toast minced garlic and ginger in chili oil

  23. Return broccoli to pan, add sauce made from light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, mirin, toasted sesame, cornstarch, and water

  24. Cover and cook on low heat until tender, about 1 minute

  25. To plate: layer herbed cream with cabbage, top with furikake seasoning, add rice, and top with broccoli

  26. Serve chicken with pan sauce on the side

Course🍽️Main Course

Diets🥩Carnivore...

Category🍽️Main Dish

CuisineAsian

Occasions🍽️Dinner Party📆Everyday

Season🔁Year-round

DifficultyMedium ⏰ 45m

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