Chicken with Chilies
Spicy and delicious, challenging your taste buds, and leaving a lasting impression.
Chicken with Chilies is a classic Chinese dish. It uses chicken as the main ingredient, stir-fried with dried chilies and Sichuan peppercorns. The dish has a bright red color, with crispy outer and tender inner chicken pieces. The spicy flavor is intense, providing a thrilling taste with every bite, making it irresistible.
👉🏻Ingredients list⚠️
Chicken thighs or breast meat 500g
Dried chilies 50g
Sichuan peppercorns 10g
Garlic 30g
Ginger 20g
Cooking wine, soy sauce, dark soy sauce, sugar, salt (to taste)
👉🏻✨DIRECTIONS:
Cut the chicken into pieces and marinate with cooking wine and soy sauce for 20 minutes.
Cut the dried chilies into small segments, and slice the Sichuan peppercorns, garlic, and ginger.
Heat a pan with cold oil, add the Sichuan peppercorns, and fry until fragrant. Remove and discard.
Add the dried chili segments and fry on low heat until fragrant.
Add the marinated chicken pieces, stir-fry on high heat until the chicken changes color.
Add the sliced garlic and ginger, and continue stir-frying.
Add soy sauce, dark soy sauce, sugar, and salt, and stir-fry evenly.
Finally, sprinkle with the fried Sichuan peppercorns and serve.
👉🏻✨TIPS
Adding ginger and cooking wine when marinating the chicken can effectively remove the fishy smell.
Adding an egg white when marinating the chicken can make the fried chicken crispy outside and tender inside.
After frying the chicken, it needs to be re-fried once to make it less greasy.
👉🏻✨BENEFITS
Chicken with Chilies is not only delicious but also helps stimulate appetite and enhance immunity. The dried chilies and Sichuan peppercorns are rich in vitamins and dietary fiber, promoting intestinal motility.
👉🏻✨NUTRITIONAL
Chicken with Chilies is rich in protein, vitamins, and minerals. Chicken is a high-protein, low-fat food that has the effects of warming the middle, replenishing qi, nourishing the essence, strengthening the spleen and stomach, promoting blood circulation, and strengthening bones and muscles. The spices such as chilies also contain rich nutrients beneficial to human health.
