Black-Beer Chicken with Ginger, Garlic and Soy Sauce

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp sesame oil
• 1 chicken (about 1.7kg), jointed, or 8 chicken thighs, skin on, bone-in
• 150 ml stout
• 100 ml Shaoxing wine
• 100 ml soy sauce
• 40 gm rock sugar, crushed (see note)
• 20 gm piece ginger, sliced thinly
• 6 garlic cloves, crushed
• 3 spring onions, cut into 5cm batons
• 2 long red chillies, split lengthways
• 1 star anise
• ½ bunch garlic chives, cut into batons
• ½ cup (loosely packed) coriander