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vendredi 9 août 2013

Recipe: Szechuan Chicken Breast

By Melvin Klenke


Szechuan Chicken

Dear Recipe Goldmine Chinese Meals Fans,

There are numerous variations of this recipe. Here is one of the far better ones I sometimes make. Please note that this can be not kung pao chicken which generally makes use of Szechuan peppercorns and the chicken is stir-fried as opposed to fried. Also, not all Szechuan chicken dishes utilised fried chicken. Hope you take pleasure in this.

Regards,

Cookin' Dad

1 complete boneless chicken breast 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder 2 teaspoons cornstarch 1 egg white 3 tablespoons water

Sauce two tablespoons vegetable oil (to fry garlic, dried Szechuan peppers and ginger) 3 tablespoons oyster sauce 3 tablespoons light (colour) soy sauce* 3 tablespoons LOW SODIUM standard soy sauce 1/2 cup LOW SODIUM chicken broth 1 tablespoon dry white wine or sherry 6 to 12, or much more, dried Szechuan peppers, based on how hot you like your food* two garlic cloves, minced 1/4 teaspoon ginger, minced 3 tablespoons minced green onions (green element only) 1/4 cup dry roasted peanuts (approximation, optional) 1 tablespoon sesame oil 2 teaspoons cornstarch mixed with equal amount of water (employed to thicken sauce) 1 1/2 tablespoons sizzling hot oil (utilised to give sauce clear, glossy appear)

* Substitute with regular if light not offered

**I use six since my five year old daughter has low heat tolerance (smile).

Batter 1 1/2 cups cornstarch 1 entire egg, plus a single egg yolk 1 cup water

At the least five hours prior to you cook this dish, reduce your complete chicken breast CROSSWISE into thin slightly-thicker-than-domino strips. Sprinkle salt and garlic powder evenly more than chicken strips. Subsequent, add water followed by cornstarch. Gently massage chicken strips for 2-3 minutes till chicken strips are covered with quite thin white film. Add egg white and mix in with fingers for 1 minute or so. Set in fridge. Egg white and cornstarch in addition to water will make meat very tender.

When you are ready to start cooking, mix collectively soy sauces, oyster sauce and chicken broth. You could possibly must add about 1/4 cup water, or perhaps a tiny much more, depending on how how salty your soy sauces are. Be sure you TASTE FOR SALTINESS.

Heat about three to four inches of vegetable oil or shortening to 350 to 360 degrees F.

Beat water, egg yolk and complete egg. Eliminate your chicken strips from fridge. Location chicken in egg wash. After you have completed this, coat chicken strips with cornstarch. Set aside for a couple of minutes to enable breading to dry (crucial step in making certain cornstarch adheres to meat throughout frying cycle).

Drop chicken strips into hot oil and fry for about 2 minutes. Usually do not fry much longer than this or meat will be dry. Take away chicken from oil and set on paper towel-covered plate. Next, heat two tablespoon oil until hot. Throw in garlic, ginger and dried peppers. Cook for about 30 seconds, by which point you are going to really feel the garlic and dried pepper aroma assaulting your nostrils (smile). Add soy sauce mixture, followed by wine. Stir, permit to simmer for a minute or so just before adding cornstarch mixed with water and decreasing heat. Sauce will commence to thicken pretty speedily, in the course of which point you are able to add the sizzling hot oil utilized to fry chicken.

The final actions involve swiftly returning chicken back to wok and mixing it with sauce. Next, add minced green onion and stir quickly prior to adding peanuts (optional). Drizzle sesame oil over sauce, swiftly stir and remove mixture from wok.

Serve more than white rice.




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