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Everyone assumes that making boiled dishes requires water, but you can still cook delicious food without using water with the following tasty cooking hacks.
Boiled dishes are always favored in Vietnamese family meals. The common way to prepare boiled dishes is to pour water and food into a pot and boil until cooked. However, cooking in this traditional way often loses nutrients in the food. With the following tasty cooking hacks, you can boil food without using water and still ensure the quality of the dish.
Delicious Cooking Hack: Boiling Chicken Without Water
Boiled chicken is an indispensable dish on every Vietnamese family's dining table. Cooking chicken with water often leads to loss of its nutrients and the challenge of unevenly cooked meat. With this cooking hack, you can retain all the nutrients and ensure evenly cooked chicken without the need for water. Let's get started with this delicious cooking tip!
Method 1:
Ingredients for this amazing waterless boiled chicken hack:
- Chicken: 1 whole, cleaned thoroughly
- A bowl of peeled garlic cloves (a bowl specifically used for eating rice, folks).
- A cooking pot.
Steps to achieve the delicious waterless boiled chicken cooking hack.
Step 1: Wash the chicken thoroughly and let it drain.
Step 2: Take the peeled garlic prepared beforehand, spread it evenly on the bottom of the pot, then place the chicken on top of the garlic. Stuff the remaining garlic into the chicken's cavity.
Step 3: Cover the pot tightly and simmer over low heat for about 20 minutes until the chicken is cooked through.
Method 2:
In this delicious waterless boiled chicken cooking hack, we can substitute garlic with ginger.
The steps for the waterless boiled chicken method using ginger are similar to the method 1, but in step 2, instead of using garlic, we will use ginger to spread on the bottom of the pot and stuff into the chicken's cavity. Then, put it on the stove and simmer for about 20 minutes until the chicken is cooked through.
With the waterless boiled chicken method, there will be very little liquid at the bottom of the pot during cooking. You can utilize this chicken broth to make a delicious dipping sauce.
Just apply these 3 simple steps of this cooking hack and you'll have a delicious dish ready.
Cooking tip: Boiling potatoes without water
Ingredients for the waterless boiled sweet potatoes cooking hack:
- Sweet potatoes: You should experiment with 7 to 8 tubers first!
- Pot: It's advisable to use a slightly thicker pot.
- Nails: 10 large nails (or you can use spoons)
Steps to achieve the waterless boiled sweet potatoes cooking hack.
Step 1:
Clean the sweet potatoes thoroughly, trim both ends. After washing the sweet potatoes, drop the nails (or spoons) onto the bottom of the pot, then stack the sweet potatoes on top. Note that you should stack the sweet potatoes in order, with the larger ones at the bottom and the smaller ones on top, this way they will cook evenly.
Step 2:
Cover tightly and place on the stove to simmer over very low heat. Every 30 minutes, flip and rotate the sweet potatoes once. You can be completely assured that the sweet potatoes won't burn, just remember to rotate and flip them. Keep simmering like this until the sweet potatoes are cooked. Test the sweet potatoes by piercing them with a chopstick, if the chopstick goes through smoothly, the sweet potatoes are cooked, and you can turn off the stove and enjoy.
Waterless boiled sweet potatoes
This cooking hack is essentially like baking potatoes because the sweet potatoes cook from the moisture inside the tuber, making them very fragrant and delicious.
Notes for the waterless cooking hack:
- For boiled chicken: When spreading garlic at the bottom of the pot, make sure to cover it completely to avoid the chicken skin sticking to the bottom. If the meat sticks to the bottom, the heat trapped underneath will cause uneven cooking and charred skin. Do not uncover the pot while boiling.
Finished product requirements for the waterless cooking hack:
- For chicken dish: beautiful, golden-brown skin without cracks.
- For sweet potatoes: fragrant and not burnt.
