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- Cuisine: Chinese
- Prep Time: 20 min(s)
- Cook Time: 5 min(s)
- Serves 4
Named after a famous Chinese artist Mr Daqian, this tasty and fiery red stir-fried chicken dish hails from the artist’s birthplace of Sichuan. It is now a popular choice for Chinese cuisine around the world.
Ingredients
250g chicken fillets, cut into cubes5g salt
30g corn flour
15ml soy sauce
15g sugar
10ml Chinese vinegar
5g pepper
80ml chicken stock
50ml vegetable oil
5g dried red chilli, sliced
3g Sichuan pepper
15g chilli paste
10g garlic, sliced
10g ginger, sliced
25g green capsicums, diced
25g fresh chilli, diced
25g shallots, diced
50g cos lettuce stems, cut into small pieces
Preparation
Marinate the chicken in a bowl with salt, half the corn flour and a dash of water.
In another bowl, add the soy sauce, sugar, Chinese vinegar, pepper, stock and the other half of the corn flour. Mix until a paste forms.
Place a wok over very high heat and add the oil, dried chilli and Sichuan pepper. Stir-fry for 30 seconds.
Add the chicken and stir-fry for 2 minutes or until the chicken is cooked.
Add the chilli paste, garlic, ginger, capsicum and fresh chilli, and stir-fry for a further 2-3 minutes.
Add the paste and shallots and stir-fry for a further minute.
Serve immediately.
If you enjoyed this Daqian chicken recipe then browse more Chinese recipes, stir-fry recipes, quick recipes and our most popular hainanese chicken rice recipe.
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