Three Cups Chicken

三杯鸡

This is a Taiwanese dish flavoured with equal proportions of Chinese rice wine, sesame oil and soy sauce.

Ingredients (serves 3-4 pax)

4 chicken thighs (de-boned and cut into bite size pieces)

2 tablespoons sesame oil

2 tablespoons Chinese wine (huatiaojiu)

2 tablespoons light soy sauce

2 inch ginger (cut into thin slices)

1 bunch of spring onions (cut into 5cm strips)

Method

1. Heat up sesame oil in a wok. Add the ginger slices into the oil and fry over low heat until the edges of ginger slices crisped up. Remove the ginger slices and set aside.

2. Heat up wok until smoking. Add the chicken pieces and sear/brown them over high heat.

3. Turn heat down and mix in the light soy sauce. Simmer for 5 minutes.

4. Drizzle the Chinese wine onto the chicken and stir to mix in. Simmer for 5 minutes. 

5. Add the spring onions and fried ginger slices and mix in thoroughly.

Serve hot!