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Our Chinese Chicken Recipe is simplicity itself. At the same time it's tasty and healthy. We serve it with stir fry bean sprouts, a diced red pepper and a few peas for extra colour, taste and nutrition. Best of all it's all cooked in the same pan!

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Chinese Chicken Recipe

 

 
 Chinese Chicken Recipe

Chinese Chicken. Click picture to enlarge.
Chinese Chicken is simple to make but it gives a very tasty, attractive and nutritious meal. The chicken should be marinaded for a few hours before cooking but cooking time is only 12 minutes.

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 Preparation Time:  2 hrs marinade  Cooking Time:   12 mins
 How Difficult  Easy  Freeze?   No
 Servings

4 portions

INGREDIENTS
The basic ingredients are shown below. We also served ours with bean sprouts, diced red pepper and ready mixed American and wild rice. The recipe includes these ingredients.

Chinese Chicken recipe ingredients. Click to enlarge. Copyright David Marks.

Metric Imperial
4 chicken breasts 4 chicken breasts
1 heaped teaspoon of sweet chilli 1 heaped teaspoon of sweet chilli
Half a cup of chicken stock (1 chicken stock cube dissolved) Half a cup of chicken stock (1 chicken stock cube dissolved)
Half teaspoon Chinese 5 Spice seasoning Half teaspoon Chinese 5 Spice seasoning
Half a teaspoon ground ginger Half a teaspoon ground ginger
Half tablespoon Soy sauce Half tablespoon Soy sauce
3 tablespoon olive oil 3 tablespoon olive oil
1 red pepper 1 red pepper
150 g bean sprouts 5 oz bean sprouts
Cup of frozen peas Cup of frozen peas
200 g ready mixed American and wild rice 7 oz ready mixed American and wild rice

WHAT SPECIAL KITCHEN EQUIPMENT
All that is needed is a medium sized frying pan or a wok if you have one.

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Diced chicken. Click picture to enlarge. Copyright David Marks Trim off any fat from the chicken breasts and dice them into cubes approximately 2 to 3 cm (1 inch) square.

 
Chinese Chicken marinade. Click picture to enlarge. Copyright David Marks If you have fresh chicken stock pour that into a medium sized bowl. If not dissolve a chicken stock cube in half a cup of water and pour that into the bowl. Add the sweet chilli, ground ginger, Chinese five spice, olive oil and soy sauce to the bowl and mix well with a fork.

Add the chicken stock, cover the bowl and place it in the fridge for one to two hours (the longer the better).

 

Put the rice on to cook so that it will be ready at approximately the same time as the Chinese Chicken is ready. Slice the red pepper in half, remove the white inner pith and pips and chop into small pieces.
  

Chines Chicken recipe being cooked. Click picture to enlarge. Copyright David Marks Turn on the hot plate to its highest temperature a minute before taking the chicken from the fridge. When the hot plate is piping hot, place the frying pan on it and add the entire contents of the chicken marinade. Fry for eight minutes turning the chicken every minute or so.

Now add the bean sprouts, chopped pepper and frozen peas (the peas can be added to the rice which should still be cooking if you prefer). Stir the ingredients gently, cooking for a further four minutes.


  
Chinese Chicken. Click picture to enlarge. Copyright David Marks. Drain the rice and serve it with the Chinese Chicken straight from the pan. There will be a small amount of cooking juices in the pan which should be spooned over the chicken.

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