Chinese Chicken Hot Pot

June 26, 2014 by Amy Darcy 11 Comments

It’s finally getting chilly here in Brisbane. Slippers, extra moisturiser, socks, wheat packs and doonas are all part of the nightly bedtime routine now. Reis and I have each had our ‘changing weather’ cold too. With many of us suffering these colds, a bit of chicken soup to warm the body has been in need. This my friends, is a Chinese Chicken Hot Pot. Cooked in the slow cooker, it produces chicken which is so succulent it can be cut with a fork and emanates inviting aromas throughout the home.

Serves: 6 Prep time: 20 minutes Cook time: 8 hours

Ingredients:

1.5kg chicken theighs (no need to chop it will practically melt appart with the slightest touch of a fork)
1L chicken stock
500ml chinese wine (can find this at the supermarket in asian cooking aisle, AKA chinese rice wine or shao hsing wine)
1/2 cup light soy sauce
1/4 cup oyster sauce
1/3 firmly packed brown sugar (or 1/4 cup of stevia if you prefer sugar free)
4 whole garlic cloves
5cm ginger, sliced thinly
3 star anise
1 tsp chinese five-spice (in spice aisle f supermarket)
2 fresh long chillis (I used Australian banana chillis), halved length ways
500g buk choy, chopped coarsely
1/3 cup coriander, chopped coarsely
1 fresh long red chilly, deseeded and sliced thinly
rice noodles (in asian aisle of supermarket)
sesame seeds, small handful

Method:
1. Combine water, stock, cooking wine, sauces, sugar, garlic, ginger, spices and chilli in 4.5L slow cooker. Add chicken, cook covered, on low, 8 hours.
2. Remove chicken thighs; strain broth through sieve into a large bowl. Discard solids. Cover chicken to keep warm. Return broth to cooker and add buk choy to cook for 5 minutes. Meanwhile steam rice noodles.
3. Serve chicken with boychoy, rice noodles and drizzle broth over the top. Spinkle with sesame seeds, sliced chilli and corriander.

Have you tried Chinese Chicken Hot Pot before? What else works in the slow cooker for you?

Amy Darcy

Editor & Founder at Eat Pray Workout

Amy is the founder and editor of Eat Pray Workout. She is an Australian lawyer, army wife, health & fitness lover and Mum. Sharing her passion for a holistic and realistic approach to wellbeing and fitness, her mission is to inform, inspire & empower women to live a flourishing healthy lifestyle.

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Comments

Jess says
June 13, 2018 at 4:13 pm
It says in the method "combine water, stock, cooking wine etc ... but it doesn't say stock on the ingredients. Do you add stock? If so how much?? Recipe looks delish and I really wanna get it right! Thanks heaps
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- Amy Darcy says
  June 16, 2018 at 4:56 pm
  Hi Jessica! Thanks so much for bringing this to my attention. I am going to be honest and say that it's been a while since I have cooked this one but I most likely meant to say 1 litre of chicken stock not one litre of water in the ingredient list. I probably used stock cubes which is why I wrote water at the time. I have updated this now and it should taste delicious! Please let me know how you go with it! xx
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Helen Brown says
July 1, 2019 at 1:05 pm
This is a fabulous recipe I have been using for years. I recognise it from a slow cooker recipe book in my collection. But you failed to mention where you got the recipe from. How very disappointing.
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- Amy Darcy says
  July 4, 2019 at 1:04 pm
  Hi Helen, Thanks for your comment! Yes it's a great one, I'll have to try it again. I haven't made this one for a while (I posted this back in 2014). This recipe was based on a hand written recipe given to me by my Mum, however it is quite possible that it has come from one of her old cook books too! If you can let me know which of your cook books you have found it in I would be more than happy to update the post to reflect that :) Thanks for letting me know. Cheers, Amy
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Helen Brown says
July 2, 2019 at 1:13 pm
Hi Amy, You deleted my comment regarding the fact you did not acknowledge the source of the Chinese Chicken Hot Pot recipe you posted. You state your are a lawyer. So you know exactly what you have done and what you should have done. And you are profiting from your theft. How mindful is that? Cheers Helen
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- Amy Darcy says
  July 4, 2019 at 1:10 pm
  Hi Helen, WHOA. That escalated quickly and was unnecessarily rude. I didn't delete your comment, the comments come to me for approval before they are posted and I didn't have a chance to check my emails where I am notified of them until today (I have a newborn, a toddler as well as a husband that serves in the military so I'm a little run off my feet). Hopefully my response to your first comment has clarified my position on this recipe. I am more than happy to credit the original recipe if it can be located. Please let me know the details so I can update the post. Regards, Amy
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Helen Brown says
July 2, 2019 at 1:14 pm
Hi Amy, You deleted my comment regarding the fact you did not acknowledge the source of the Chinese Chicken Hot Pot recipe you posted. You state your are a lawyer. So you know exactly what you have done and what you should have done. And you are profiting from your theft. How mindful is that? Cheers Helen
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Helen Brown says
July 2, 2019 at 1:16 pm
Steal.Post.Profit
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Helen Brown says
July 4, 2019 at 10:36 pm
Hi Amy, I too am a mum and a fulltime professional. But I don't also have a third source of income from a blog where I rip off others' efforts and achievements. As you know, if you are going to profit from another's work you should seek permission and or at least acknowledge the source. And if you can't cope with parenting, fulltime work and an internet business from which you financially benefit, you should stop. For example if you cannot afford to pay a worker award rates, that does not justify underpaying them or slavery. It is as simple as that. The Chinese Chicken Hotpot comes from a Women's Weekly Slow Cooker recipe book which is only a couple of years old. I will check the exact date of publication tomorrow. It is not an old family recipe handed down on scraps of paper from one generation to the next. And if I can squeeze another unpaid task into my day, I will pass on my concerns to the Women's Weekly. Not only is the name of your blog a rip off; the contents are too. Eat, cheat and cash in - mindless greed.
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- Amy Darcy says
  July 6, 2019 at 10:12 pm
  Thanks for your concern, I appreciate your feedback and will look into it.
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