Chinese sweet and sour chicken

Description

This recipe is a modification of recipe for a great St. Petersburg chef Ilya Lazerson of transmission "World Chef". The original recipe is pork and it is breaded in starch and fried in deep fat. Following the wishes of my household, I made this recipe more "healthy" - replaced the pork in the chicken, removed the starch and frying in deep fat, while maintaining the flavors of the original recipe. Cook it for a few years - we all love it. In this recipe highlights the flavor of typical Chinese cuisine - a combination of ginger, garlic and hot pepper with soy sauce. Despite my modification is all gone. And the combination of this flavor with tomato and sweet and sour flavors makes this dish quite typical for the Chinese cuisine taste. Add green onions and cilantro enhances the Asian accent.

Ingredients

Chicken breast

9 piece
Ginger
Garlic

10 tooth
Peppers red hot chilli

2 tsp
Red sweet pepper

3 piece
Onion

2 piece
Green onions

1 coup
Cilantro

0.5 coup
Tomato paste

170 g
Olive oil

10 Tbsp
Vinegar

4 Tbsp
Sugar

2 Tbsp
Soy sauce

600 ml

Cooking

Cut onion into small chunks about 1 cm in width of the circle (convenient for grasping sticks)

Arrange the onion in a bowl

Red sweet pepper cut into strips, length 3 - 5 cm

And put in a separate bowl

Narubai garlic finely and put in a bowl

Take this amount of ginger (the knife blade in the photo - 18cm). Clean it from the skin

Cut the ginger on the plate 2 - 3 mm along the grain

Plate, adding a pile and cut into strips - also along the grain

Then, the resulting strips cut across the grain into small cubes and add to bowl with garlic. This method allows you to keep all the flavors and essential oil until sauteed. And while they are moving sauteed in vegetable oil. If you grate the ginger on a grater, a large number of essential oils volatilize and lost a lot of juice.

Green onion cut into pieces 3 to 4 cm and put in a separate bowl

Cilantro chop tomatoes and put them in a bowl with onion

Cut the chicken Breasts across the grain into slices with a thickness of 0.5 - 1 cm and put into a bowl

Pour the chopped chicken, half soy (or'll have a teriyaki) sauce, mix well with your hands and give promarinovatsya 20 minutes

While the chicken is marinating, begin to sauté the ginger, garlic and red chilli pepper on a small pan in olive oil

Once the garlic, ginger and chilli "hissing" in the pan - saute them for 30 seconds - 60. Then add the tomato paste and continue to sauté for another minute 5 - 7, stirring frequently, until olive oil is not stained from tomato paste. Then, temporarily set aside the pan aside.

Heat two large frying pan with plenty of olive oil on maximum heat. You can throw into the oil a piece of garlic or ginger when it begins to sizzle the oil is hot enough.

Reduce the heat to 2/3 from maximum and begin to lay out the chicken in both of the pan, leaving as much marinade in the bowl. Good to chicken lay in a single layer. When all the chicken is laid, raise the heat to maximum and continue to fry the chicken on one side - do not mix, and give to be sealed.

When the chicken turned white and even browned on one side, stir and continue to fry until white

Add the onions and red peppers

Stir, pour leftover marinade in a bowl from the chicken and the remaining half of the soy (or'll have a teriyaki) sauce so that the sauce showed through the chicken.

Reduce the heat to 1/3 of the maximum and stew under the lid minutes 25 - 30 - until the chicken is cooked. I love that the chicken pieces have started to fall apart under the fork on the fiber. If you like a firmer texture, time can be reduced up to 10 minutes - the chicken will be ready

When the chicken is ready, add the pan contents in a small frying pan (with garlic, ginger, chilli and tomato paste) in half. Stir, bring to a boil. Added (in small portions) vinegar and sugar and bring to the desired combination of sweet and sour

Added to both the pan greens green onion with cilantro - equally

Stir, remove from heat and allow to infuse for a few minutes.

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