Soy Sauce Hand-Shredded Chicken (Rice Cooker)
酱油手撕鸡 · cantonese cuisine · Canton
This home-style dish uses drumsticks marinated in a soy sauce mixture, cooked hands-off in a rice cooker with ginger and garlic at the bottom, and shredded by hand once cooled. The source describes it as an easy, convenient recipe especially suited for take-to-work meals.
Kwame BoatengGhanaian-American guy learning to recreate my mom's groundnut soup and jollof without calling her every time. Currently obsessed with getting smoky flavor on a stovetop.Nutrition & allergens
Contains:SoyWheat
Some ingredients are not yet allergen-surveyed; this label is not exhaustive.
Per serving (4 servings)
- Energy (kcal)
- Unknown
- Protein (g)
- Unknown
- Fat (g)
- Unknown
- Carbs (g)
- Unknown
- Sodium (mg)
- Unknown
Estimated from verified ingredient data for the original formula — not lab values, and one dish is not a full meal.
3.0 piece
0.25 cup
0.06 cup
0.03 cup
0.53 oz
as needed
Techniques you'll use
- Blanching (chao shui) ↗
Par-cook in boiling water to clean, tighten, or prep ingredients.
- Marinating ↗
Season protein ahead with soy, wine, and starch for flavor and texture.
Steps
- 1
Step 1
Rinse the fresh chicken drumsticks well under running water.
✅ Done when: The drumsticks are clean, with no residue or debris on the skin.
Pour boiling water over the drumsticks to scald and rinse them.
✅ Done when: The skin looks tight and clean after the hot-water rinse.
Add 4 spoonfuls of light soy sauce, 1 spoonful of oyster sauce, 0.5 spoonful of dark soy sauce, and 1 spoonful of brown sugar to the drumsticks.
✅ Done when: All the seasonings are added and the drumsticks are coated in the sauce mixture.
Add shredded ginger, mix everything evenly, and marinate for 20 minutes.
✅ Done when: The drumsticks have marinated for a full 20 minutes and are evenly coated.
- 5
Step 5
Place peeled garlic cloves and ginger chunks in the bottom of a dry, oil-free rice cooker pot.
✅ Done when: The rice cooker pot has no water or oil, with the garlic and ginger spread on the bottom.
- 6
Step 6
Add the marinated drumsticks, pouring in the marinade along with them.
✅ Done when: The drumsticks and all of the marinade are in the pot together.
- 7
Step 7
Press the rice-cooking button on the rice cooker.
✅ Done when: The rice cooker is running on its rice-cooking cycle.
- 8
Step 8
Once the chicken is cooked through, take it out and let it cool.
✅ Done when: The chicken is fully cooked and cool enough to handle.
- 9
Step 9
Shred the chicken by hand and serve.
✅ Done when: The meat pulls apart easily into shreds.