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Soy Sauce Chicken cooked in a pressure cooker with a super easy recipe
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Pressure Cooker Soy Sauce Chicken

This is the easiest way to cook Soy Sauce Chicken that is super tender and packed with sweet savoury flavour!
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Asian, Chinese
Keyword: dinner, easy recipe, lunch, pressure cooker
Servings: 4

Equipment

  • Pressure Cooker

Ingredients

  • 1 kg chicken
  • 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
  • 2 stalks green onion
  • some ginger slices

Sauce

  • some ginger slices
  • 3 shallots wedged
  • 2 green onions stalks (white part) only
  • 1 star anise
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 cinnamon bark
  • 1 cup light soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
  • 0.5 cup Chinese wine
  • 2 tbsp brown sugar
  • 1.5 cup water

Instructions

  • Clean the chicken and pat dry.
  • Rub the chicken with dark soy sauce. Then stuff the green onions and ginger into the chicken, and set it aside.
  • Heat up the pressure cooker with oil and stir fry the ginger and shallots until fragrant. Add in green onion stalks (white part only), star anise, cinnamon bark and bay leaves.
  • Add light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, Chinese wine, brown sugar and water then bring it to a boil.
    Pro Tip: I’m using a 3-litre pressure cooker, so the sauce is enough to cover at least 80% of the chicken. A pressure cooker shouldn’t be more than 2/3 full to avoid liquid being ejected from the pressure release valve.
  • Put the chicken breast-side-down, lock the pressure cooker and let it cook over medium-high heat until it whistles. Mine took about 12 minutes to whistle.
  • Once it whistle, turn off the heat and let it soak for 20 minutes before you release pressure.
  • Take out the chicken and chop it, drizzle as much sauce as you like, then enjoy!
    Pro Tip: Keep the extra sauce for your next round of soy sauce chicken! 😁