Best Tea Poached Chicken Recipes

GREEN TEA POACHED CHICKEN WITH GREEN TEA RICE

Steps:

• Bring water to a near boil, pour over tea, and let steep 1 minute. Strain tea into a medium pot. Add onion, garlic, lemongrass, ginger, and chile; let cool slightly, then add chicken. Bring up to a simmer over medium heat, reduce heat, and gently simmer until the chicken is cooked through and a thermometerinserted into the thickest part reads 160 degrees, about 7 minutes. Remove chicken from poaching liquid; strain liquid, discarding solids.
• Place 4 cups of strained liquid in a medium pot. Add rice, olive oil, 1 teaspoon of salt, and black pepper. Bring to a boil, cover, and reduce to a simmer. Cook until all liquid is absorbed and rice is cooked through, about 50 minutes. Remove from heat and let stand 10 minutes.
• While rice is cooking, remove chicken from bone and shred into large pieces. Keep chicken in remaining poaching liquid and reheat just before serving. Season with 3/4 teaspoon of salt, and black pepper. Serve rice with chicken moistened with some of the reserved liquid. Top with sliced scallions, cold cucumber spears, and a squeeze of lemon.

GREEN TEA-POACHED CHICKEN

Steps:

• Bring 4 cups water to a boil in a high-sided skillet. Add tea bags. Steep for about 5 minutes; remove and discard tea bags. Reduce heat to medium and add chicken, lemon slices, and sea salt. Cover and cook until the chicken's internal temperature reaches 165 degrees F (74 degrees C), 18 to 20 minutes.
• Combine parsley, lemon juice, olive oil, garlic, and 1 tablespoon water in a food processor and puree until very smooth. Serve chicken warm, topped with parsley mixture.

EASY TEA-POACHED CHICKEN WITH RICE

Steps:

• Rub chicken with 1/4 cup kosher salt, cover, and refrigerate overnight.
• Rinse chicken and pat dry with paper towels.
• Mix short-grain rice, peanuts, apricots, and ginger together in a bowl; stuff the rice mixture into the chicken cavity. Tie legs together with a piece of kitchen twine.
• Pour chicken broth and water into a large soup pot and bring to a boil. Place chicken into the boiling mixture, breast side down; drop tea bags into the liquid. Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer chicken for 45 minutes, turning chicken over in the broth after 30 minutes.
• Remove chicken from broth, transfer rice stuffing to a bowl, and cut chicken into quarters. Discard tea bags; strain broth, reserving any rice. Stir in soy sauce to taste and season to taste with salt. Serve chicken on a platter garnished with cilantro, with broth and rice stuffing on the side.

TEA POACHED CHICKEN

Steps:

• Step 1 Bring water, star anise and half the sugar to boil in a deep frying pan over medium heat. Season. Add tea bags. Set aside for 10 minutes to infuse. Discard tea bags. Bring to boil over medium heat. Reduce heat to low. Add chicken. Simmer, turning once, for 15 minutes. Transfer to a plate, reserving 2 tablespoons liquid. Set aside for 10 minutes to rest. Step 2 Bring the extra water to boil in a saucepan over high heat. Add rice. Cover. Reduce heat to low. Cook for 15 minutes or until tender. Set aside, covered, for 10 minutes. Use a fork to fold in the sushi seasoning. Step 3 Meanwhile, combine soy sauce, sesame oil, reserved poaching liquid and remaining sugar in a small jug. Step 4 Thickly slice the chicken. Serve with rice, asparagus and salad leaves. Drizzle over the dressing and sprinkle the sesame seeds.

TEA-POACHED CHICKEN OVER GRAIN BOWL

Steps:

• Bring 2 cups water to boil in large saucepan. Add chicken and tea bags; cover. Simmer on medium-low heat 10 min. or until chicken is done (165°F).
• Meanwhile, pour remaining water into electric pressure cooker. Add farro; close and lock lid. Turn Pressure Release Valve to Sealing position. Cook 10 min. using HIGH PRESSURE COOK setting. When timer goes off, use Natural Pressure Release for 5 min., then do a Quick Pressure Release to release any remaining pressure. Turn pressure cooker off. Slowly remove lid.
• Transfer chicken to medium bowl; discard cooking liquid from saucepan. Add dressing to chicken; mix lightly. Toss onions with vinegar in separate bowl.
• Spoon farro into 4 medium bowls; top with chicken, onions, edamame, carrots and avocados.