tamarind & soy sauce chicken

How To Make tamarind & soy sauce chicken

• Step 1
  You need a heavy 2-3 quart pan with lid.
• Step 2
  Wash and remove fat from chicken.
• Step 3
  Wash and remove all but 1 layer of the paper-ish skin from 3 heads of garlic, cut in 1/2 straight across.
• Step 4
  Toss chicken and garlic into the pan. Add soy sauce, and garlic.
• Step 5
  Add measured soy sauce, then in the same measuring cup add tamarind paste and a little water and mix. Add to the pot.
• Step 6
  Cover with water to about 2 inches above chicken.
• Step 7
  Bring to a high boil and boil for 10 min., then remove from heat and allow to set for 2-3 min and the skim off any oils and other debris from top of water.
• Step 8
  Return to heat and cook at a high simmer until the chicken is fully cooked. Remove from heat.
• Step 9
  Remove Chicken from the sauce and place in a covered bowl ready to put back in the sauce.
• Step 10
  Pour sauce and solids thru a strainer into a pan/bowl and return sauce to pan.
• Step 11
  Pick thru the stuff in the strainer for chicken, add to bowl of chicken.
• Step 12
  Find all garlic, remove from the garlic skins. Mash the really large pieces ever so slightly and return all garlic "meat" to sauce.
• Step 13
  Taste sauce, add soy sauce or tamarind paste as needed to balance the 2 flavors to your own taste. Bring to a high boil and reduce sauce to about 2-3 cups. Taste again for balance.
• Step 14
  Add reserved chicken back to sauce and simmer, turn pieces as necessary to coat with reduced sauce and rewarm thru.
• Step 15
  Using either cooked rice or cooked Cous Cous form a ring on a serving platter. Place cooked Chicken in the middle nap with the sauce. Serve while hot.
• Step 16
  Garnish as desired. I like the contrast of leaf parsley.
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