Chinese Chicken

Ingredients for Chinese Chicken:

1. Chicken breast – 450 g, cut into square pieces
2. Sugar – 1 small spoon
   Dark soya sauce – 1 big spoon
   Corn flour – 1 big spoon

For Sauce

3. Sugar – 1 small spoon
   White vinegar (Chinese) – 2 small spoons
   Soya sauce – 1 big spoon
   Chicken stock – As required
   Corn flour – 2 small spoons
4. Groundnut oil – 2 big spoons
5. Pepper – 4 or 5 seeds
6. Chinese wine – 1 big spoon
   Garlic chopped fine – 2 small spoons
   Mango ginger, finely chopped -2 big spoons
   Yellow capsicum – 1, cut into square pieces
   Spring onion, finely chopped – 2 small spoons
   Red chillies – cut into round pieces after removing seeds, 2 small spoons
7. Cashews fried – 10-12

How to prepare Chinese Chicken?

1. Marinate chicken with ingredients no: 2.
2. Mix together ingredients no: 3 for the sauce.
3. Heat oil in a pan, fry pepper seeds.
4. When it turns black, filter from the hot oil.
5. Now fry chicken in hot oil.
6.  Add ingredients no: 6 to it and mix well.
7. Add sauce and cook for 10-12 minutes.
8.  If you need extra salt, add it at this stage.
9. Sprinkle fried cashews on top and serve with noodles or fried rice.

Archive: Vanitha Magazine, January 15-31, 2017

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