Thursday, 13 February 2014

Gong Bao Chicken

Ingredients:
1/2 tablespoon chili oil
300 g chicken thigh fillets, diced
1 tablespoon dried red chili (or fresh but the restaurant uses dried)
2 green onions, chopped
1/2 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon grated ginger
2 garlic cloves, chopped
2 -6 tablespoons stock (the recipe states several) or 2 -6 tablespoons water (the recipe states several)
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 tablespoon Chinese wine
1/2 tablespoon light soy sauce
1/3 cup cashew nuts (or peanuts)

Directions:
Coat wok or pan in chilli oil.
Add chicken pieces and stir until just cooked and set aside.
Into wok or pan add chilli, green onion, ginger, garlic, vinegar, stock or water and stir.
Add sugar, cooking wine and light soy sauce and stir.
It's really important here to make sure that everything reduces and caramelises. The restaurants green onions and dried chilli's are quite well cooked.
Return chicken to the pan and mix ingredients together.
When juice becomes slightly sticky add the nuts.
Place in serving dish.

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