Chicken Hot Pot with Celery and Green Pepper

I am sure many of you will know the famous Chicken Hot Pot Restaurant in Singapore. Everytime when I dine there, I have to queue for at least 15 minutes.

Chicken Hot Pot is like a steamboat, except that it is not using clear soup. Chicken is marinated intensively and the soup base is dark in color. It looked like the commonly known stir-fry chicken with oyster sauce, except that it comes with a lot of gravy.

In the recipe below, it is my 1st try to experience to cook Chicken Hot Pot and it tastes pretty good, though not 100% similar.

Marinating:

Ingredients

1. 1/2 Chicken (Cut into small pieces)
2. 4 tablespoon of Oyster Sauce
3. 3 tablespoon of Dark Soya Sauce
4. 3 Cinnamon
5. 4 Anise
6. 1 tablespoon of 5 Spices Powder
7. 8 Cloves of Garlic (Peeled and Lightly Smashed)

Steps

1. Mix all ingredients and marinate overnight

Soup Based:

Ingredients

1. Chicken Bone
2. 4 Cup of Water
3. Salts

Steps

1. Boil Chicken for 15 minutes. Turn to low heat and boil for at least 30 minutes
2. Add Salts to taste

Cooking:

Ingredients

1. 3 Stalks of Celery (Cut into 1.5cm length)
2. 1 Green Pepper (Cut into 1.5cm length, or into cube-like)
3. 1 big Yellow Onion (Cut into cube)
4. 2 Stalks of Chinese Parsley (Cut into small stalks)

Steps

1. Add Oil in hot pan
2. Add Onions and stir-fry until fragrant
3. Add Garlic (from marinate) and stir-fry until fragrant
4. Add Cinnamon and Anise (from marinate) and stir-fry for 1 minutes
5. Add Chicken and stir-fry for approx 3 to 4 minutes
6. Add Green Pepper and Celery and stir-fry for approx 2 minutes
7. Add Marinating sauce (from marinate) and stir-fry for 1 minutes
8.  Add 1 cup of Chicken Soup Base and simmer until chicken is cooked
9. Transfer to steamboat pot
10. Add Chinese Parsley

You can dine it like how you enjoy your steamboat.
Prepare some raw ingredients, eg. vegetables, noodles, mushroom and cook it in the steamboat.
Refill soup with Chicken soup when necessary.

Good to with Rice.

Comments and Tips:

• If the taste is too bland, you can add more oyster sauce and five spices powder at steps 8. And if it is too salty, you can add more Chicken Soup.