How to cook Soy Sauce Chicken Wings + Spinach Ohitashi 〜手羽先の醤油煮〜 | easy Japanese home cooking recipe

Welcome to Taiji's Kitchen. Today I'm going to show you how to make soy sauce cooked chicken wings. This dish is actually special for our region where I come from which is Nagoya because we have a special regional chicken which is called Nagoya Kochin and this dish became a specialty for our region somehow. This dish can be served cold or hot and can be stored in the fridge for a couple days and it's also very good for a bento which is a packed lunch. Then let's get started. Here I have the ingredients for soy sauce cooked chicken wings. Here I have cut up chicken wings and here I have white daikon. You don't have to have this. This is just for a side dish because the chicken wings gives good juice and white radish soaks up very well and a small piece of ginger, chili if you like it spicy, and sugar, soy sauce, and sake. If you don't have sake that's also okay. So the chicken wings are already cut up so I'm just gonna cut these daikon or white radish in small bite-sized pieces. I'm going to use it like so and the rest I'm going to put in half and cut it into yeah just about bite-sized pieces like so and then for the ginger I'm going to peel the skin off like so and like this and then I'm going to cut this in piece and what I like to do is smash this like this and so that it oops so that it gives out the juice when you cook them. So that's finished. So the first thing I'm going to do is clean the chicken with hot water. So here I have semi-boiled boiling water. I'm gonna put them in water and let them let the surface of the chicken cook because the skin of the chicken wings have a lot of fat and I want to get that out. So it's starting to boil and you just kind of see this excess fat and also if the chicken contains some blood then they'll come out at this point as well and you want to get that rinse that off and now I'm going to turn the heat off and I'm going to take this sink and give it a good wash like so. I'm gonna have and if the chicken contains a little bit of feather still then this is a good time to take that off. You want to check that it doesn't have any feather on them. Sometimes the chicken wings have a feather. Good. I'm gonna put a little bit of water like so and put it back and heat it to high and then I'm going to put in here sake. Like I said if you don't have sake that's also okay. It just gives a little bit more depth to the flavor and soy sauce and sugar and then to that I'm going to add the ginger mashed up ginger. These ginger we're not going to eat. We're going to take that out after. So once it comes to a boil I'm going to put in the daikon in there and I'm going to try to put everything under water of course it's not all going to fit. So we're going to wait till that comes to a boil and when it comes to a boil I'm going to put in what's called otoshi buta if you translate it as sun-glazed. So I'm going to make a little hole in top and then this paper towel I put over it so what it does is even the part that doesn't get covered in the water it stays in the water. So it comes to a boil now I'm going to turn the heat to low and let it cook for about 15 to 20 minutes. So it's been about 15 minutes let's see how it looks so the daikon has soaked up the juice and you see that the chicken is cooked but hasn't soaked up the sauce yet. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn off the heat and then let it sit like this in the sauce or in the soup. What it does is that as it cools down the chicken and the daikon will soak up the good juice of the sauce. Put the lid back on and let it sit like this for about two or three hours as it cools down. So four hour has passed let's see what it looks like yeah the daikon has soaked up the juice and so has the chicken I think yeah yeah looks good. So you can serve it like this cold or you can just put this in in your bento as it is and eat for lunch or like me today you can heat it up I like to have it warm so I'm going to heat it up and for the side dish I've decided to make a little bit of green I decided to make spinach ohitashi so I'm just bring the water to boil with a little salt in there so the chicken is starting to boil I don't want to burn the bottom of it so I'm going to turn down the heat to medium and I'm going to wait till the water boils so the water is boiling I'm going to put first the stem part of the spinach because that's going to take a longer to cook and the leaf you really don't need to cook that long I see too often that it gets overcooked you just need to let it soak in hot water for like 10 seconds and then it's actually ready I'm just gonna put a sink and I'm gonna count to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and it's finished I'm gonna turn off the heat and I'm going to cool this in water you want to get the water out so then it's ready to cut okay so evenly and I'm going to put it on a plate like this so it looks good I'm gonna put a little bit of bonito flakes on the top and then just soy sauce over it easy as that so ohitashi is finished so this is starting to smell really good let's see yeah looks awesome take a couple of these these as well I'm gonna put some daikon in there see how the daikon soaks up all the juice oh it's amazing and I'm just gonna put a little bit of scallion on the top and a little bit of juice then it's finished itadakimasu looks delicious let's eat so let's see this is the chicken wing um the meat comes just right out of the bone perfect oh all this flavor matches rice perfectly also scallion gives a little punch to it perfect the daikon soaking up all the goodness from the chicken which is great let's eat the ohitashi simple and yet delicious also this combination of bonito flake and soy sauce is perfect this matches rice perfectly well all the cooking in japan or most of the cooking in japan are made to fit with rice um we almost always eat rice with every meal and rice is just in the center of our cooking and everything we eat matches rice so good get a bit of juice of that this sauce matches rice perfectly so delicious that was really delicious I hope you enjoyed the video as you saw it was pretty simple I hope you try it yourself at home and let me know in the comments and if you like what you saw please subscribe and I look forward to seeing you in the next video bye