Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, salt and pepper chicken (takeaway style). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Quick and easy recipe for to delicious takeaway style Chinese battered salt and pepper chicken at home, using five spice, salt and pepper. When working in a Chinese restaurant, our most popular dish was Salt and Pepper chicken and for good reason - it's delicious! How to Make Chinese Salt and Pepper Chicken The same can be done but using wings instead of chicken breast.
Salt and Pepper Chicken (Takeaway style) is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Salt and Pepper Chicken (Takeaway style) is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have salt and pepper chicken (takeaway style) using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Salt and Pepper Chicken (Takeaway style):
- Make ready 1 large chicken breast cut into thin bite sized chunks,
- Make ready Half a white onion, sliced,
- Get 3 spring onions, sliced,
- Get Half a medium carrot, cut into thin strips (optional)
- Get 2 large cloves garlic sliced into thin pieces,
- Take 1 red chilli seeds left in half, sliced into rings,
- Take 1/2 tsp garlic granules
- Take 2 tbsp corn flour or potato starch,
- Get Ground Black Pepper,
- Make ready Sea or table salt,
- Prepare Vegetable oil for frying
Coat the chicken with the cornstarch evenly. Deep-fry the chicken until they turn golden brown, remove from the oil and set aside. If you want to add some salty, crispy delicacies to your dinner tonight. Taiwanese salt and pepper chicken - This recipe uses minimal oil to create super crispy juicy chicken bites that are bursting with flavor.
Steps to make Salt and Pepper Chicken (Takeaway style):
- Heat up a thin layer (around 2-3mm) of oil up in a wok over a high heat. In a bowl add the cornflour/potato starch and add a good pinch of salt and a few grinds of black pepper. Add the garlic granules. Combine.
- Take the chicken pieces and coat them with the flour mixture. Add them to the oil once nice and hot so it sizzles once the chicken is added.
- Shallow fry the chicken pieces for a few minutes turning occasionally until all sides are golden brown and the chicken cooked through. Remove and rest on some kitchen towel to remove any excess oil.
- Drain away the oil from the wok to remove any debris from the flour. Return to the heat. If needed add a tiny dash of oil to the wok then add the white onions and carrots, (some takeaways don't add carrots to this dish, so adapt to what you prefer). Fry quickly for around 2 minutes whilst moving it around the wok. Next add in the spring onion and chillies and garlic. Toss and fry it in the pan until fragrant.
- Return the chicken pieces to the wok. Add a bit more black pepper and a pinch of salt. Toss everything together then remove from the heat.
- Serve up immediately while hot and crispy! Enjoy.
It uses brown sugar, fresh ginger and garlic to impart a rich taste to the chicken. Ideally, marinating in the fridge overnight will help the chicken develop a deeper flavor. How to prepare salt and pepper chicken. Cut away the skin that is dangling on the chicken pieces since they are likely to detach from the meat during frying. Cut the chicken into bite-size pieces, no larger than an inch square.
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