Cola Chicken

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 1 chicken (soup chicken or poulard)
• 1 piece(s) ginger, thumb-sized
• 1 cup(s) soy sauce
• 1 garlic clove(s)
• 1 liter of Coke
• 1 stalk(s) leek
• rice
• 4 chili peppers, red and fresh
• Vinegar
• oil
• Sauce thickener or Mondamin
• salt and pepper

Instructions

Working time approx. 15 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 45 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour

Sounds unusual, tastes amazing…

Place the chicken in a large pot. Slice the ginger and garlic clove and add to the chicken. Pour the soy sauce (preferably Japanese, it tastes best) over it. Now: add the cola to the pot. Turn on the stove and bring the chicken to a boil. Then reduce the heat so that it just simmers, otherwise the chicken will fall apart. Cook for about 45 minutes. Prepare the leeks and rice: Trim and wash the leeks and cut them into centimeter-thick rings. Rinse the rice with water (otherwise it will stick) and add it to a pot with a teaspoon of salt and the water in a ratio of 1:3 (1 part rice, 3 parts water). Don’t heat it up yet—the rice only needs about 20 minutes! Make the salsa: Finely chop the chilies (be sure to wash your hands thoroughly afterward) and mix with 4 tablespoons of oil and 1 tablespoon of vinegar, season with salt and pepper—the result is a slightly spicy paste. This allows you to add more spice to the dish later, depending on your taste. 20 minutes before the chicken is ready to cook, simmer the rice until al dente. Briefly cook the leeks in a pot with a little water until the skin becomes translucent. Then rinse with cold water. This keeps them nice and green. After 45 minutes, remove the chicken from the pot, let it cool slightly, and then pour the sauce through a sieve into another pot. Season with salt and pepper. Then thicken with sauce thickener or Mondamin. Remove the meat from the bones and add it to the cola and ginger sauce along with the leek rings. Now pile the rice in the middle of the plate and arrange the chicken ragout around it. Place the salsa sauce on the side in a small bowl.