Dan Dan Chicken
This Lu (Shandong) cuisine dish is shaped like a chicken and consists of stir-fried chicken slices, fried meatballs and fried bread slices.
Ingredients
chicken breast (some sliced, some minced)
600 g
chicken wings
1 pair
chicken head
1
spring chicken legs
2
ground pork
200 g
winter bamboo shoots (sliced)
25 g
green and red peppers (sliced)
25 g
egg whites
50 g
bread (cut into rectangular blocks)
150 g
vegetable oil (approximately 100 g actually used)
900 g
cooking wine
15 g
minced ginger
15 g
minced scallion
25 g
MSG
8 g
salt
7 g
wet starch
100 g
chicken broth
50 g
Instructions
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Step 1
Mix 50 g chicken broth, 2 g salt, 3 g MSG, 5 g cooking wine, and an appropriate amount of wet starch to make a sauce. Slice the winter bamboo shoots and green/red peppers. Cut the bread into rectangular blocks 1.2 cm long, 6 cm wide, and 6 cm thick. Take 400 g of chicken breast, remove the skin and tendons, cut into slices, mix evenly with egg whites, 2.5 g salt, 5 g cooking wine, and an appropriate amount of wet starch, and set aside to marinate. Take the remaining chicken breast, remove the skin and tendons, mince it, place in a bowl, add minced scallion, minced ginger, MSG, 2.5 g salt, 5 g cooking wine, ground pork, and an appropriate amount of wet starch, and mix well to make a filling.
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Step 2
Heat the wok over high heat, heat the vegetable oil to 60% hot, slip-fry the marinated meat slices together with the winter bamboo shoots and green/red peppers briefly in the oil, remove and drain. When the oil reaches 70% hot, place meatballs (extruded from the meat filling) into the oil, fry through, then remove and drain. Fry the bread until golden, remove and place on a plate, use 15 cm long bamboo skewers to skewer one meatball at each end, and lay them over the bread tray.
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Step 3
Leave a little oil in the wok; once hot, add the chicken slices, green and red pepper slices, and winter bamboo shoot slices, pour in the prepared sauce, toss a few times, and serve in front of the bread tray. Arrange the deep-fried chicken head, spring chicken, and chicken wings on both sides of the bread tray to shape a chicken.
