Chicken Wings & Burdocks - (ref. Collagen February 9th)

Another easy to make recipe which has lots of collagen (chicken wings) and fibres (burdocks), especially good for women.   Burdocks actually is a good source of Iron and minerals - sometimes hardworking women lack these, so i make sure i cook burdocks for my own health at least once a week.

Serve 2 persons (at 336 kcal, salt of 3gram - excluding skin of chicken wings)

Ingredients:

6 chicken wings

100 gram of burdocks

1/2 onions (100 gram)

1/2 welsh onions (spring onions) 

30 gram of ginger (sliced thin)

350 ml of water 

2 tspb of salad oil

Sauce:

2 tbsp of miso

soy sauce, sugar, mirin, sake (1 tbsp each)

How to make:

1. Break chicken wings to separate it into 2 parts

2. Cut burdocks into 4-5 cm slices and dip them in clean water to get rid of bitterness

3. Cut welsh onions into 4-5 cm slices and also slice ginger acccordingly

4. Prepare the sauce mixture by putting all the ingredients into small bowl

5. Heat the frying pan, put into the pan 2 tsp of salad oil and start frying chicken wings first

6. Boil 350ml water in the pot then put into the boiling water, burdocks, ginger, onions and welsh onions then the fried chicken wings.   

7. Cook for 5 minutes, then pour in the sauce mixture.  Cook with the sauce for 10 minutes at medium fire.  You do not need to cover the pot with lids.   When the chicken wings change colors and sauce mixture runs out, turn of the fire.

Recommendation:

8. Turn over chicken wings to get an even color from the sauce.

Chicken Wings & Yam (ref. Collagen - February 9th 2009)

Serve 3 persons

Ingredients:

6 chicken wings

800 taro roots*

salt to wash taro roots 1 tbsp

1/2 tbsp of salad oil

3 tbsp of sake

For soup mixture:

400 ml of soup stock (chicken or fish stock)

1 tbsp of sugar

2 tbsp of mirin

3 tbsp of soy sauce

For measurement of tbsp & tsp, please check Important Measurement

For those with sensitive skin, please wash you hands after touching/peeling taro roots*, as the slimy substance can cause minor skin rash/itchiness.

How to make:

1. Prepare soup mixture in a separate pot and put it aside.  

2. Peel the taro roots* and wash it with salt in order to get rid of slimy substance attached.

3. Put oil in the frying pan and get it ready to fry the chicken wings

4. Pour chicken wings and clean taro roots* into the soup mixture in the pot

5. Cook with medium fire until it boils for a few minutes, then continue cooking with low fire for another 20 -25 minutes.

Check to make sure that the taro roots* is soft enough and when the liquid runs out, you need to turn off the fire.   

I hope you enjoy another variation of chicken wings recipe - happy cooking is healthy cooking!

*Thanks for the inputs!

Chicken Wings and Potatoes (ref. Collagen - February 9th 2009)

Ingredients:

10 Chicken wings (alternatively chicken feet*)

5 Potatoes 

2 tbsp of soy sauce

1 tbsp of sugar

1 tbsp of mirin (check out local chinese/japanese shop)*

150 cc of Water

*alternatively make your own substitute for mirin (=sake+sugar)

**if possible use a ceramic/glass cooking pot with heavy lid 

How to make:

1. Peel potatoes and cut them into cubes (edible size)

2. Put potatoes and chicken feet in a pot** (alternatively use ordinary stainless pot, but cook at lower fire - i.e. cook slowly for better taste)

3. Pour all the ingredients necessary and boil until all the sauce is absorbed in the meat and potatoes.   Use medium fire in the beginning then adjust to low fire towards the end.

Enjoy!