Friday, 24 November 2006

Sweet Chilli Chicken Stirfry

This is not to be confused with Justin's recent Sweet Chilli Chicken. This stirfry dish is more of a cross between that and his Sticky Hoisin Chicken. They all revolve around his favorite ingredients - hoisin sauce, chilli sauce and Worcestershire sauce (which is common to all three dishes...)

What you need:
3 pieces boneless chicken thighs
2 shallots, cut into thin slices
1 onion, cut into thin slices
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
6 tablespoons Thai sweet chilli sauce
1 tablespoon concentrated chicken stock
Corn flour, for coating around the chicken
Oil, for frying
Salt and pepper, for seasoning

What you do:

  1. Cut the chicken up into bite-sized pieces and roll in cornflour until well coated. Heat some oil in a wok, and add the chicken pieces once hot.
  2. Fry the chicken until they are crisp and golden brown. Add in the shallots and onions, and fry until they are softened.
  3. Add in the Worcestershire sauce, sweet chilli sauce and chicken stock. Stir to mix it well into the chicken.
  4. Season well with salt and pepper (white is ideal, but black is fine as well). Serve immediately.

This tastes very very similar to most of his dishes. I need to get new housemates that have more imagination :P Anyway, this was actually a bit too spicy for me, since there was a LOT of chilli sauce but it was nevertheless tasty, more or less. Feel free to up or lessen the amount of chilli sauce :P Hadi and Justin couldn't quite taste it. o.o

This dish follows the typical stirfry recipe that I've been following for some time. Justin snitched it from me :P Basically, you make the chicken all crisp by frying it in cornflour, then add in the stirfry sauce. If you serve it immediately, the chicken is usually still crisp but with a sticky sauce layer. Yum! You can add almost anything you like into the sauce, but apparently, Worcestershire sauce makes the chicken lose its crispiness (according to Justin) so I would probably not add that in any of my stirfries. And after all this, I still don't know what it tastes like! :(

Quote of the day: A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money

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