Salt and Pepper Chicken

Crispy, tender and well seasoned, this Chinese salt and pepper chicken is great served with rice and some bok choy. Use chicken breast if you want to, just keep in mind that they might dry out after frying and sauteing. You can modify the amount of heat in this recipe by removing seeds if prefer milder or using even more and hotter chillies. You can use this recipe with prawns, pork, or tofu.

6-8 Boneless, skinless chicken thighs, cut into bite-sized pieces
50 g Sea salt flavoured pork rinds, ground into powder (or cornstarch)
1 tsp Chinese five-spice plus a pinch
750 g Tallow, ghee or lard for frying
1 Onion, diced
5 Spring onions, sliced into 5cm long pieces
1 Red chilli, sliced
1 tbsp Finely grated ginger
2 Garlic cloves, finely chopped
A large pinch of flaky sea salt
1/2 tsp Szechuan peppercorns, ground
3 tbsp Shaoxing rice wine (or dry sherry)
3 tbsp Gluten free soya sauce

Put the chicken in a bowl, sprinkle over the ground pork rind or cornstarch and add a pinch of five spice and a pinch of salt if using cornstarch. Toss well.
Heat the tallow in a large frying pan until it reaches 180C/350F. Add the chicken and fry for 10-12 minutes or until golden and crunchy. Drain on kitchen paper.
Pour out most of the oil into a heatproof bowl, leaving 1 tbsp of tallow in the pan. Add the onion, spring onion and chilli, stir-fry for a few minutes, tossing frequently, then add the ginger and garlic. Fry for another minute until fragrant, then return the chicken to the pan with 1 tsp of the five spice, salt, Szechuan pepper powder, wine and soya sauce. Give everything a toss to coat briefly in the sauce and spices.

13 comments:

Lucimar da Silva Moreira 16/12/24 12:25: O aspecto está muito bom, deu água na boca ótima sugestão para o almoço e jantar, Angie passando pra te desejar uma ótima semana bjs.
Tom 16/12/24 13:28: ...I would like this dish!
DEZMOND 16/12/24 13:34: I bought a bit of spring onions myself this morgen.
Ivy's Closet 16/12/24 14:59: So festive!
Lola Martínez 16/12/24 15:24: Todo lo que sea pollo en salsa me gusta, pero ya sabes que siempre me quejo de las especias con picante, siempre las aparto y me como lo demás.
Christine 16/12/24 15:30: Flavourful
Carol @Comfort Spring Station 16/12/24 16:40: It really looks delicious!
eileeninmd 16/12/24 17:03: Another yummy recipe!
Take care, enjoy your day and have a great week ahead.
DeniseinVA 16/12/24 17:58: Oh my goodness, I really love the look of this dish. Thanks Angie!
Rainbow Evening 16/12/24 18:32: sound tasteful.... yummy
Anonymous 16/12/24 18:52: Love it.
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Hena Tayeb 16/12/24 19:46: Oh yum.. this looks so good.
Bill 16/12/24 20:08: I would love this!