The Simplest Recipe: Coke Chicken

For the past weeks, I have been watching a Taiwanese cooking show: 'Feng Shu's Cooking Class'. Somehow, I am stuck to this cooking show for its simple recipe yet delicious meal.

This is the one that I have tried recently, 'Coke Chicken with Soy Sauce'. This sounds strange, right? However, it tastes alright. The reasons behind using Coke for this dish are when Coke has been cooked, it becomes like caramel and therefore, it makes the chicken sweet and it also makes chicken wings' shiny black. The taste of the 'Coke Chicken with Soy Sauce' is sweet and salty.

The ingredients:

1. A small bottle of Coca-Cola / Coke
2. Chicken wings (I have tried with drumsticks) (advisable not to use breast meat as it will be hard)
3. Soy sauce of any brand (mine is Rose brand)
4. White sesame
5. Shichimi powder

The steps:

1. Pour about half bottle of Coke into the cooking pan and boil it.
2. Boil the chicken wings in another pot of hot water for 3 minutes (as a way to clean it)
3. Place the chicken wings into the pan of Coke and cover up the pan with a lid.
4. Check from the time to time to see whether the Coke has dried up.
5. When it has dried up, pour in some soy sauce (about three table spoons).
6. Stir the chicken wings until all the sauce has dried up.
7. Place them on a dry plate.
8. Sprinkle some white sesame and Shichimi powder (if you want them to be spicy) on them.

(Source: Feng Shu's Cooking Class TV programme)

The sweet and salty Coke Chicken

Plus it is a bit spicy too with Shichimi powder