Hearty and healthy, this garlic and chicken soup is packed with flavour and goodness. The symphony of flavours in the broth are the perfect complement for the tasty and succulent chicken drumsticks.
Marinate drumsticks in the soy, mirin, ginger, chilli oil, and garlic - several hours or overnight
Remove the chicken from the marinade and allow to drain.
Put the drumsticks zip lock or vacuum seal bags and remove the air.
Sous vide for 2 hours at 71 degC.
Broil the drumsticks in the oven to brown the skin.
Broth
Peel the onion and dice.
Wash the medium sized carrots and dice.
Peel the garlic cloves and crush under the side of a knife.
In a large saucepan, melt the butter over a medium heat.
Add the diced vegetables and sweat until the onion has softened, about 10 minutes.
Add the add the chicken stock, bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to a simmer, and simmer for 30 minutes.
Strain the vegetables from the broth and return the broth to the heat.
Add 1 Tbsp fish sauce and check seasoning. If it needs to be more salty, add another Tbsp of fish sauce.
Roast vegetables
Preheat the oven to 200 degC.
Quarter the onion through the root end. Keeping the root end should keep the quarters more or less intact.
Remove the stalks from the fennel bulbs, then halve vertically. Remove the hard core.
Wrap some foil around the stalks of the baby carrots to protect them from the roasting heat.
Top and tail the baby zucchinis.
Halve the large garlic cloves.
Lay the vegetables on a baking tray and splash with vegetable oil and sprinkle with salt.
Roast the carrots, onion (in 1/4’s), fennel (in 1/4’s), zucchinis, and halved large garlic cloves until done. The onion and fennel should be getting charred. The carrots and zucchinis will be getting soft with crinkly skins. The garlic should be golden brown. Each vegetable may not be done at the same time, so remove them when they are done.
Remove the foil from the carrot tops.
Plating
Distribute the roasted carrots and zucchinis, onion and fennel pieces, and chicken drumsticks between 4 bowls.