Monday, 19 September 2011

Fragrant Dry Chicken (Gan Xiang Ji)


Recipe from here

~Ingredients~
800g chicken - I use 750g
24g curry leaves - I use 10g
40g garlic (whole, remove skin and fry till dark brown)
40g ginger (retain skin and sliced)
2 fresh chilli, sliced

~Seasoning~
4ml salt
4ml ginger
40ml ginger juice - I use ginger cubes
1 egg
60ml water
40g potato starch - I use tapioca starch
40g plain flour

~Sauce~
1 tbs oyster sauce
1/2 tbs fish sauce
2 tbs Thai chilli sauce - I use 3 tbs
1/2 tbs lime juice
1/2 tbs sugar
1/2 tbs light soy sauce - I use 1 tbs
some dark soya sauce


Method
  1. Marinate chicken with seasoning ingredients for 1 to 2 hours.
  2. Heat oil to about 80% hot (bubbles popping), put chic in and fry till golden brown. Remove from wok. Don't use boiling hot oil as meat will end up burnt.
  3. Heat some oil in the wok and quickly fry garlic, ginger, curry leaves and chilli over high heat.
  4. Pour sauce in, add in fried chic, mix well and serve.