Chicken with Coffee/Shoyu Sauce (Hawaiian Style) Recipe

This is an easy dish to make in hurry or to put in the slow cooker for a yummy dish to come home to. I like this best served with rice and coleslaw, but it would also be delicious with mashed potatoes and any steamed vegetable that you prefer. I truly believe that baking is a science and that cooking is an art, so my recipes tend to be a bit vague at times. This is partly because I am constantly experimenting and partly because I like the freedom of my art. Don't get too hung up on the difference between 1/4 teaspoon and a 1/2 teaspoon. It probably won't matter all that much anyway and becoming frozen by the fear of screwing up takes all the fun out of it. When baking, pay attention to the details, they spell the difference between success and failure. When cooking, a pinch of this and a dash of that are perfectly acceptable measurements. That said, here we go with coffee and shoyu chicken. (One quick note - shoyu is the term for "soy sauce" in Japan and in Hawaii. They would no more call it soy sauce then we would call milk "cow juice". Since this a Hawaiian recipe, we will call it shoyu. And Hawaiin shoyu is slightly sweeter and saltier then Chinese or Korean versions, but it won't matter for this recipe.)

1 cut-up fryer or six to eight pieces of your choice

1/3 cup of strong coffee

1/3 cup shoyu

1 cup water

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp ground ginger ( I prefer fresh)

dash of salt

2 or 3 chopped green onions (white and green parts)

2 cloves garlic, minced

Mix all ingredients except for chicken in bowl. In hot oil, quickly brown chicken. Cover with mix and bring to boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook until chicken is well-done, approximately 45 to 60 minutes. Occasionally, holding pot and lid together, shake pot well. Serve with rice and vegetables.

Recipe for quick coleslaw

Finely slice half a head of green cabbage and purple cabbage

Grate 2 or 3 peeled carrots

Finely chop 1/3 of a sweet onion and 2 green onions

Mix well in mixing bowl. In separate small bowl, mix 1/3 cup mayo, a dash of rice vinegar, a dash of white balsamic vinegar, coarse ground black pepper and 2 tsp. of sugar. Stir well. Taste. It should be creamy and sweet with a distinctly tangy aftertaste. Modify to your taste. Stir into mix, adding only as much dressing as you like. For a creamier dressing, use ½ cup of mayo instead of 1/3 cup.

There you have it! Easy, quick and soooo good.