Chicken Recipe with Soy Sauce and Ginger

This excellent chicken recipe combines an intriguing mix of ingredients, including soy sauce, ginger, tomato sauce and sweet peas. It is best served with freshly cooked rice.

• Preparation time: 20 minutes
• Cooking time: 45 minutes
• Total time: 1 hour 5 minutes
• Servings: 6
• Makes: 6 servings

Ingredients

• 120 ml vegetable oil
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 tablespoon fresh ginger, chopped
• 1 whole chicken, jointed
• 1 (285 g) tin tomato sauce
• 120 ml soy sauce
• 120 ml oyster sauce
• 2 teaspoons garlic salt
• 1 (285 g) tin baby peas, drained
• 1 red pepper, sliced into strips
• 4 medium potatoes, peeled and diced
• 1 pinch ground black pepper

Directions

1. Warm the oil in a large frying pan over a medium-high heat. Fry the onion and ginger for 3 minutes, until lightly browned. Place the chicken in the pan with the skin facing down. Cook for about 10 minutes, turning once with tongs, until golden.

2. Whisk the tomato sauce, soy sauce, oyster sauce and garlic salt together in a bowl, then pour the mixture evenly over the chicken. Carefully stir through the peas, red pepper and potatoes. Simmer for 20 to 30 minutes, until the chicken is fully cooked and no longer pink in the centre. Finish with ground black pepper.

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