Chicken with Green Peppers
Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 lb. chicken
- hot green peppers, chopped in large pieces, about a cup worth
(Portugal or jalapeno peppers should do; these were whatever our grocery calls
"long hot peppers")
- 1 cup celery, 1/2 inch diagonal slices
- 1 cup carrots, 1/3 inch thick diagon slices
- 3 Tbs garlic (sliced)
- 1/2 egg white (to marinate chicken)
- 1 Tbs Cornstarch paste (to marinate chicken)
- 1 Tbs Soysauce (to marinate chicken)
- 3 cups cooking oil
- 2 Tbs soysauce (seasoning sauce)
- 1 Tbs brown vinegar (seasoning sauce)
- 1/2 Tbs wine (seasoning sauce)
- 1 tsp cornstarch (seasoning sauce)
- 1 tsp sesame oil (seasoning sauce)
- 1 tsp sugar (seasoning sauce)
- 1/2 tsp salt (seasoning sauce)
Preparation
Remove all bone from chicken, cut into 1" cubes. Soak with marinating mixture
for at least 1/2 hour.
Remove seeds and stems from green peppers, cut into 1" squares.
Heat 3 cups oil to boiling point, fry chicken for 1/2 minute until done,
remove chicken from pan and drain oil.
Using 2 Tbs oil fry garlic until fragrant, then add peppers, stir fry
a few seconds, add remaining vegetables, stir fry a few more seconds until
hot. Add the chicken and seasoning sauce, stir until it thickens. Serve
immediately.
Notes:
Yes, we use hot peppers as a vegetable, rather than a condiment. Green
Bell peppers will do if you don't like hot food.
Attribution
This is mostly from Pei Mei's Chinese Cook Book Volume I. The original
recipe specified green and red bell peppers for the vegetative matter;
we didn't have any tonight, and like our food much hotter than that, anyway.
The quantities might be a bit off as given, I wasn't measuring except very
roughly.
jfw@funhouse.com