Salt and Pepper Chicken

Salt and Pepper Crispy Chicken

• 500g Chicken (Strips or diced)
• 1 egg
• 3 cloves of garlic
• 2 spring onions
• a red chilli
• half a green pepper
• 2tbsp flour and
• 3 tbsp rice flour ( or Gram Flour)
• white & black pepper to taste
• salt to taste
• soy sauce

The method

slice the chicken into small slices like your little finger size

put the chicken in a mixing bowl and spoon over it the beaten eggs

add a bit of pepper, salt and soy sauce

now mix that all together thoroughly

put this sticky chicken mixture into the flour, press the flour into the meat as you are mixing with your hands

heat the oil to about 170C

put the chicken pieces in and don’t stir it straight away let the coating harden onto the chicken, you don’t want to break it all off by stirring too early

when golden brown take out the chicken

re-heat the oil to very hot and re-introduce the chicken to the oil

the oil clears in a couple of minutes now take the chicken out and drain it of oil

fry the basil leaves (very hot oil again is best)

now dry fry the rest of the spices/ingredients (garlic, spring onion, green pepper, chili)

keep stirring it so it doesn’t burn, fry them until they aren’t wet anymore but are crispy

now into the pan add the chicken and basil from before to mix the whole lot together, add some more salt and a liberal sprinkling of black pepper

serve with rice and vegetables, you have a traditional Taiwanese main meal

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As usual Joanne has recorded a cooking video so you can follow the exact method step by step, as she prepares the Taiwanese crispy salt and pepper chicken 香酥椒鹽肉條. It’s good to watch the timings of adding the ingredients and you can see how the ingredients are chopped into correct sizes, and lots of other things, remember a picture says a thousand words and a video is 1000s of pictures.

http://taiwanduck.com/how-to-make-taiwanese-crispy-salt-and-pepper-chicken/