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Title: Hunan Spicy Chicken
Categories: None
Yield: 1 Servings

1 lb Boneless chicken breast; cut
-into shreds

----------------------------------MARINADE----------------------------------
1 Egg white
1 tb Dry sherry
1 tb Cornstarch
2 c Vegetable oil

-----------------------------------SAUCE-----------------------------------
1 1/2 tb Oyster sauce
3 ts Sugar
4 tb Tomato catsup
1/2 ts Salt
1 pn White pepper
1 ts Hunan pepper;the soaked
-pepper flakes at the bottom
-of hot oil (?), substitute:
2 ts Chili paste; OR
2 ts Sambal oeleck; OR
1 ts Crushed red pepper flakes;
-PLUS
1 ts Red chile oil
1/2 c Onions; diced (1/4 inch)
2 tb Finely chopped fresh ginger
1 Garlic clove; minced
1 ts Sesame oil

Mix chicken shreds with marinade mixture. Mix sauce ingredients and set
aside. Cut up onions and assemble remaining ingredients. Heat 1 1/2 cups
oil in wok just until smoking. Add chicken and stir constantly with large
chopstick or wooden spoon until shreds separate and turn white. Remove
chicken with slotted spoon and place in bowl until ready to use. Pour off
all but 2 Tbsp of the oil from the wok. Heat oil until smoke appears. Add
onions, ginger, and garlic, and stir-fry until onions soften, about 2
minutes. Add chicken and toss together thoroughly. Stir sauce and pour into
the wok. Stir together until well coated. Add sesame oil, turn off heat,
and stir well. Remove from wok and serve immediately.

Based on a recipe for Spicy Shrimp from The Chinese Banquet Cookbook by
Eileen Yin-Fei Lo Posted to r.f.r by: riacmt@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Carol
Miller-Tutzauer)

NOTES : MC formatted by Holly Butman

Recipe by: Eileen Yin-Fei Lo

Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #772 by Holly Butman
on Sep 05, 1997