Chinese Greenbeans Stir fry with chicken
I used one chicken breast which would be more than sufficient for 2 servings. Cut through the breast so that you have two evenly cut breast we want the chicken pieces to be thin and slender. Refer to this page for assistance with cutting the breast. After that cut them length wise into small pieces. Click here for some ideas. Sorry I didn't take pictures of ingredients this time.
Marinate chicken with some salt, lemon juice, soy sauce, pepper powder let it sit for 30 minutes. This dish is prepared in three easy steps.
Step 1 : Cooking green beans. You could either use whole beans but I like to cut them into halves. Bring a pot of water to boil with little salt and oil . Remember this would be really boiling with bubbles. We need to cook beans in this water for couple of minutes, not longer. The beans would be crunchy to bite but not raw. Strain and run cold water over it. This will stop the cooking process. Set this aside.
Step 2: Stir fry chicken with Garlic. We would need few medium sized garlic pods about 8 - 10. Mince garlic (chop finely) and sprinkle corn starch over the chicken marinade and coat them well.
Heat a large fry pan with 1 to 2 tb.sp oil (Oil of your choice) and stir fry the garlic for few seconds. Add chicken to it and fry them on both sides so that they are cooked. Do this in high heat chicken would change color and would brown slightly. You can sprinkle very little water only if required to prevent smoke.
Step 3: Preparing the sauce and putting everything together. I have used the following sauce.
- Soy Sauce - 2 tb.spn - I used light.
- Oyster Sauce - 1 tb.spn
- Chili Oil - 2 tb.spn
- Sweet chili sauce - 1 tb.spn
- Sesame oil - 1 t.spn
- Hoisin Sauce - 1 t.spn
- Sugar and Salt as needed.
- Some water
To prepare the sauce first heat regular cooking oil (about 1 tb.spn) with chili oil in a large pan or wok. Saute few minced garlic,Ginger julienne whole red chili. Ensure the chili is slit so the flavor gets incorporated with the dish. Do not brown them.
Add all the sauces mix well. Add 1 tb.sugar and water as per gravy. Taste the seasoning , now you may add salt and more sugar if needed to balance the taste. Add chicken and beans, cover and simmer the heat, let them cook in this sauce for couple of minutes. You may add little water if needed.
Finally the sauce need to be thickened. Mix one t.spn corn starch with little water and add into the sauce little by little until the sauce reaches desired thickness.
Garnish with roasted white sesame seeds. Serve hot with steamed rice. If you cook this as a dry dish this could be served as an appetizer as well.
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