Guay Tiew Gai

 

Ingredients for the broth (for two):

Chicken breast  1 piece

Chicken drumstick  2 pieces

Cilantro root  1 root or (coriander seeds in a mesh bag with the pepper corns and ginger)

Garlic  4 cloves

White peppercorn  1 tablespoon

Onion 1 bulb 

Ginger root  5 slices

(Optional) Goji berries  1 tablespoon

(Optional) Sweet radish or diakon root, preserved  1 tablespoon

Salt 1 teaspooon

Crystal sugar  3 pieces, or about a teaspoon or honey if you do not do sugar. 

Water  8 – 10 cups

Ingredients for the noodles:

Bean sprouts, about 2-3 cups

Noodles of your choice, as much or as little as you want or none. I like to do glass or zoodles

Fried garlic in oil 

Accompianments

Cilantro and green onion, chopped up

Tung Chai( pickled cabbage or shredded clean kimchi

Fish sauce

Granulated sugar or honey (I like to add this to the red jalepeno in vinegar with the fish sauce)

Limes, cut in wedges

Cracked roasted peanuts 

Dried red chili flakes 

Red jalapeño in vinegar

White pepper

Method:

1) Put water in the pot and add the cilantro root, smashed garlic, peppercorns and onion (cut in quarters), and bring to a boil over the high heat.

2) Add the chicken breast and drumsticks to the pot, lowering the heat to medium. If some foam appears on the top, scoop it out. Boil the chicken breast until done, using a fork to pierce through the breast to see the level of doneness.

3) Take only the breast part out of the pot and let it cool

4) Then use a fork to shred the meat.

5) Leave the drumsticks in the pot and continue to simmer so the meat is tender and will fall off the bones.

6) Boil another pot of water to cook the vegetables and noodles. Wait until the water reaches a boil, then cook the bean sprouts separately, usually less than a minute, remove, put the bean sprouts in the bowl. and then do the noodles. Cook noodles in the water accordingly or soak them if they are bean threads.

7) For salad: (Guay Tiew Gai Hang) Toss the noodles with the fried garlic oil right away to prevent them from sticking to each other.Warm the shredded chicken up in the soup pot that is still simmering, Then add them to the bowl.

Add the drumstick and accompaniments. 

For soup: (Guay Tiew Gai Nam) After adding the shredded chicken and the drumstick, then add the soup to an individual serving bowl.  Add the accompaniments.

For a low carb option: (Guay Tiew Gai Gao Lao) Don’t bother with the noodles, just use more bean sprouts or zoodles. Add the shredded chicken, the chicken drumstick (only if you have some left) and the accompaniments. You can have the Gao Lao style (no noodles) with or without the broth.

SOURCE: high heel gourmet