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Sichuan (Szechuan) Chicken

Published 05/01/2014, updated 19/06/2020 2 Comments

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Sichuan chicken

There are so many recipes out there for Szechuan Chicken or Sichuan Chicken, there really is no right or wrong. Sichuan is an area in South West China known for its more flavourful and spicy cuisine, compared to the rest of the country. Besides the giant pandas, of course!

This recipe uses hot bean sauce, which is fermented soya beans mixed with chillies and produces that particular Sichuan Chicken you get at Chinese restaurants & takeaways (takeouts). Fermented soya beans are a very common cooking ingredient in East Asia, from China to Korea to Indonesia, & comes in various forms, with or without chilli.

You should be able to find it fairly easily in a well stocked Oriental food store, otherwise, substitute it with Black/Brown Bean Sauce or Paste or Hoisin sauce & up the chillies. Bear in mind that Hoisin sauce is on the sweet side, so a little goes a long way.

I also use sichuan peppercorns, for a lovely dimension to the dish. Click here to find out more about it and how to use it.

You can use any part of the chicken, I love drumsticks for this & feel free to use prawns or pieces of fish instead, adjust cooking time accordingly, seafood needs a much shorter time.

Although I’ve added an egg white here to coat the chicken, I often do without it as my girls are allergic to eggs, so feel free to do so if you’d rather, just the cornflour will suffice.

Be sure to check out my other Chinese recipes for more recipe ideas!

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sichuan chicken

Sichuan Chicken


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  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Cook Time: 30 minutes
  • Total Time: 35 minutes
  • Yield: Serves 4 1x
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This Sichuan chicken recipe uses hot bean sauce, which is fermented soya beans mixed with chillies and produces that particular Sichuan Chicken you get at Chinese restaurants and takeouts.


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Ingredients

  • 1 tsp sichuan peppercorns
  • 1 egg white
  • 2 Tbsp cornflour (cornstarch), mixed in a little water to form a paste
  • 500g (1.1 lb) chicken wings or drumsticks
  • 3 Tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 clove garlic, sliced width wise
  • 2.5cm/1″ ginger, cut in strips
  • 1 red chilli, sliced (more or less, to taste)
  • 1/2 capsicum (bell pepper, whatever colour), cut in strips
  • 2 Tbsp hot bean sauce
  • 1 tbsp rice wine or dry sherry (replace with 1/2 tsp vinegar for alcohol free)
  • 1 tsp light soy sauce
  • 125ml (1/2 cup) water
  • 1–2 tsp chilli oil (optional)

Instructions

  1. Dry roast the sichuan peppercorns on low heat for 2-3 minutes in a frying pan. That means no oil. Then pound them with a pinch of salt using a pestle and mortar, or in a small chopper. You want a coarse grind.
  2. Mix the egg white and cornflour paste and coat the chicken thoroughly with it.
  3. Heat the oil in a wok on medium heat and fry the drumsticks up in two batches, 4-5 minutes each side. Don’t overcrowd them, you want them frying, not stewing. Set aside. Don’t worry too much if the chicken doesn’t look quite done, we’ll be cooking it further, this is only the browning and crisping stage.
  4. Leave about 1 Tbsp of cooking oil in the wok and sauté the garlic, ginger and chillies on same heat level for a minute.
  5. Return the chicken back into the wok and stir to coat.
  6. Add the hot bean sauce and stir again to coat.
  7. Add the water, pounded sichuan peppers, wine and capsicum, and simmer on the lowest heat, uncovered, for about 15-20 more minutes until the chicken is completely done. This extra cooking time also allows the meat to absorb all the flavours. Add more water if necessary.
  8. At the end of cooking time, check seasoning, if you need more salt, add the soy sauce. f you’d like more sauce, add a little more water.
  9. Serve immediately, sprinkled with chives. Perfect with plain boiled rice or with egg fried rice.
  • Category: Side dish
  • Cuisine: Chinese

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Comments

  1. Grace says

    19/03/2016 at 2:00 pm

    Wow I really like this,thank you for sharing with us the ideas of cooking

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    • Azlin Bloor says

      19/03/2016 at 2:57 pm

      You are very welcome, Grace, thanks for stopping by. x

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