Szechuan Style Chicken Stir Fry
A Chinese chicken dish, packed full of flavour.
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Servings: 4
Calories: 540kcal
Ingredients
- 800 g Chicken thigh fillets
- 2 tbsps Soy sauce
- 1 tbsp Mirrin
- 2 tbsps Cornflour
- Cooking oil
- 1 tbsp Sesame oil
- 1 Onion, roughly chopped
- 1 Red pepper, sliced
- 1 tsp Sichuan peppercorns, ground up
- 4 Cloves of garlic, chopped
- 2 tsps minced ginger
- 6 Spring onions, roughly chopped
For the sauce:
- 2 tbsps Soy sauce
- 2 tbsps Mirrin
- 1 tbsp Sriracha
- 1 tbsp soft brown sugar
Instructions
- Cut the chicken into bite sized pieces and pop it into a mixing bowl.
- Add the soy sauce, mirin, and cornflour into the chicken and mix it well until it's completely coated.
- Cover it with cling film and leave it to marinade for half an hour. Meanwhile you can prepare the other ingredients.
- Heat a good amount of oil in a large frying pan and cook the chicken over a medium-high heat until its golden all over.
- Once it's cooked, remove it from the pan and pop it onto kitchen paper to soak up any excess oil,
- In a clean pan, add a tbsp of cooking oil and a tbsp of sesame oil.
- Stir fry the onion over a high heat for a few minutes until it starts to soften, then add in the sliced red pepper and cook for a further minute.
- Add the garlic, ginger, spring onions and ground up sichuan peppercorns. Stir fry for 30 seconds. Then add the chicken back into the pan.
- Now add in all of the sauce ingredients and stir to coat. Cook for one minute.
- Serve immediately with rice and enjoy.
Nutrition
Calories: 540kcal