Chinese home cooking

Rice Cooker Apple Chicken

Name: Rice Cooker Apple Chicken
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: whole chicken; 1 apple plus an unspecified remaining amount apple; 1/2 onion plus an unspecified remaining amount onion; 30 g butter; 1 spoonful brown sugar; 8 spoonfuls light soy sauce; 3 spoonfuls oyster sauce; 2 spoonfuls dark soy sauce; 2 spoonfuls cooking wine

苹果焗鸡

A whole chicken cooks over apple and onion in a rice cooker with butter and a soy-seasoned sauce.

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Published 2026-10-12

English adaptation and editing of authorized supplied recipes: Chinese Home Cooking.

Chopped golden-brown chicken with visible apple and onion pieces in a dark pan. — Rice Cooker Apple Chicken

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Ingredients

Quantities are included where specified in the original recipe.

whole chicken
1 apple plus an unspecified remaining amountapple
1/2 onion plus an unspecified remaining amountonion
30 gbutter
1 spoonfulbrown sugar
8 spoonfulslight soy sauce
3 spoonfulsoyster sauce
2 spoonfulsdark soy sauce
2 spoonfulscooking wine

Spoonfuls retain the Chinese recipe measures 勺/匙. Small and large spoonfuls retain 小勺 and 大勺; their volume is unspecified and is not converted to teaspoons or tablespoons.

Step-by-Step Instructions

01
Cut an apple and half an onion into pieces and put them inside the chicken. Lay the remaining apple and onion in the bottom of the rice cooker, then put the chicken on top.
02
Add the butter, brown sugar, light soy sauce, oyster sauce, dark soy sauce and cooking wine. Close the lid and use the rice-cooking setting.
03
Turn the chicken over once during cooking. Chop it into serving pieces when the cycle finishes.

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Cooking Method

One-Pot

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