Shanghai Chicken with Chilli Recipe
Like many recipes that bear the name of a place this recipe in this form has few links to Shanghai, however it is a gloriously easy chicken stir fry, rather than the more typical fresh chilli, I like to use Lao Gan Ma (crispy chilli oil) to add a little spice to this dish.
Servings 2 Servings
Calories 629kcal
Ingredients
- 400 g Chicken Thigh Meat 7oz
- 1 teaspoon Bicarbonate of Soda
- 6 Spring Onions
- 35 g Ginger 1 Thumb Sized Piece
- 6 Garlic Cloves
- 3 tablespoon Shaoxing Rice Wine
- 2 tablespoon Light Soy Sauce
- 1 teaspoon Dark Soy Sauce
- 1½ tablespoon Dark Brown Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Lao Gan Ma Crispy chilli oil, add more if you wish!
- ⅛ teaspoon MSG
- 2 tablespoon Cooking Oil
- 1 teaspoon Chinese Five Spice
Instructions
- Cut the chicken into 1-1½cm chunks (around ½") and toss it into a bowl.
- Sprinkle the bicarbonate of soda over the chicken, mix it well and allow it to sit whilst you prepare the remaining ingredients and sauce.
- Cut 5 of the spring onions into 25mm (1") lengths and finely chop the 6th spring onion.
- Peel the ginger and then cut it into batons as finely as you can.
- Peel the garlic cloves and slice them as thinly as you can.
- Mix the rice wine, soy sauces, brown sugar, lao gan ma and MSG in a mixing bowl and set aside.
- Just before you are ready to cook, rinse the chicken in cold water to remove most of the bicarbonate of soda then dry it on kitchen paper.
- Heat a wok over a high heat and when it is shimmering hot add the cooking oil, followed by the longer lengths of spring onion and stir fry for 30 seconds.
- Throw in the garlic and ginger and store fry for 15 seconds.
- Add the chicken, sprinkle over the Chinese five spice and stir fry for 2 minutes.
- Push the chicken to the side of the wok, pour in the sauce and once it begins to bubble, mix the chicken through the sauce and stir fry for a final 2 minutes.
- Serve sprinkled with the finely diced spring onion and toasted seasme seeds.
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Nutrition
Serving: 1 | Calories: 629kcal | Carbohydrates: 20g | Protein: 52g | Fat: 37g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 30g | Cholesterol: 245mg | Sodium: 2242mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 10g
