Thursday, March 20, 2008

Gong Bao Chicken


I never really measure my seasoning ingredients. Well, you use as much as you think the dish needs. Haha

Here's a recipe for Gong Bao Chicken.

Ingredients:
300 gm of chicken breast, cut into 3~5 cm cube.
1 big Bombay Onion. (Red color big onion). Cut into 8 sections.
30 g of Cashew Nuts.

10 stalks of dried chillies, soaked in hot water for at least 10 minutes. Don't cut the chillies. leave it intact. You don't want the seeds all over the dish.

3 cloves garlic, finely sliced.
4cm Fresh Ginger, peeled, and finely slice.
1 egg white.
Corn Flour.

Seasoning ingredients:
1 tablespoon of oyster sauce.
1.5 tablespoon Shaoxing rice wine
1 tablespoon of minced tauchu
1 tablespoon of Ketchup.


Marinating ingredients:
1 tablespoon of light soy sauce.
1 tablespoon of Shaoxing wine.


Marinate chickens with the marinating ingredients at least 30 minutes.

Prepare the cashew nut: Roast cashew nut until brownish, set aside.

Heat enough oil to fry the chicken.
Before fry the chicken, coat the chicken with egg white.
Then coat the chicken again with corn flour. Don't use too much corn flour. Just enough to lightly coat the chicken.

Fry the chicken in hot oil until the chicken turn brownish, about 5 minutes. Strain the excess oil and set aside.

Heat 2 tablespoon of Peanut oil in the wok.
Add garlic and ginger and stir-fry for 2~3 minutes until garlic turn bit brownish.
Add in dried chilies.
Stir-fry for another 2 minutes and add in Onion.
Stir fry for another 2 minutes.
Add in chicken and Seasoning ingredients.
Add 3 tablespoon of water.
Stir-fry for 2 minutes minutes.
Add cashew nuts. Add enough salt to taste. and stir-fry for another 2 minute.
Serve!

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