Chinese Chicken Recipes - Crispy Fried Chicken Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 chicken

• salt

• 30 ml/2 tbsp rice wine or dry sherry

• 3 spring onions (scallions), diced

• 1 slice ginger root

• 30 ml/2 tbsp soy sauce

• 30 ml/2 tbsp sugar

• 5 ml/1 tsp whole cloves

• 5 ml/1 tsp salt

• 5 ml/1 tsp peppercorns

• 150 ml/2/3 cup chicken stock

• oil for deep-frying

• 1 lettuce, shredded

• 4 tomatoes, sliced

• 1/2 cucumber, sliced

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Method:

1. Rub the chicken with salt and leave to stand for 3 hours. Rinse and place in a bowl.

2.  Add the wine or sherry, ginger, soy sauce, sugar, cloves, salt, pepper corns and stock and baste well.

3. Stand the bowl in a steamer, cover and steam for about 2 1/4 hours until the chicken is thoroughly cooked. Drain.

4. Heat the oil until smoking, then add the chicken and deep-fry until browned. Fry for a further 5 minutes then remove from the oil and drain.

5. Cut into pieces and arrange on a warmed serving plate. Garnish with the lettuce, tomatoes and cucumber and serve with a pepper and salt dip.