Spicy Diced Chicken
A classic traditional Sichuan dish featuring diced spring chicken and diced celtuce as primary ingredients, flavored with pickled chili peppers for a mildly sweet, fresh, and aromatic taste.
Ingredients
Spring chicken (cut into 1cm cubes)
200 g
Green bamboo shoots (cut into dice)
100 g
Pickled chili peppers (finely chopped, set aside)
25 g
Lard
60 g
Soy sauce
20 g
Cooking wine
20 g
MSG
3 g
Salt
3 g
White sugar
15 g
Wet starch (for coating the chicken)
20 g
Vinegar
5 g
Scallions (50g total with ginger and garlic, sliced)
to taste
Ginger (sliced)
to taste
Garlic (sliced)
to taste
Broth (for mixing the sauce)
a pinch
Instructions
1
Marinate the Chicken
Cut the spring chicken into 1cm cubes, mix well with a pinch of salt, soy sauce, and cooking wine, coat with wet starch, then toss with a little oil.
2
Prepare the Ingredients
Cut the green bamboo shoots into dice. Slice the ginger and garlic. Finely chop the pickled chili peppers and set aside. Combine the broth, scallions, ginger, garlic, cooking wine, soy sauce, sugar, wet starch, and MSG to make a slightly sweet sauce.
3
Stir-fry
Heat a wok over high heat and add the lard; once the oil is hot, add the chicken and stir-fry until cooked through.