An easy homemade chinese style chicken that you can make for your friends and family. If you’re looking for an easy and delicious chicken dish to impress your loved ones, look no further than this homemade Chinese style chicken recipe. With just a few simple ingredients, you can whip up a flavorful dish that will leave everyone asking for seconds. To start, you’ll need boneless, skinless chicken breasts that have been cut into bite-sized pieces.
You’ll also need soy sauce, rice vinegar, honey, ginger, garlic, and cornstarch. Begin by marinating the chicken in the soy sauce, rice vinegar, honey, and grated ginger for at least 30 minutes. This will infuse the chicken with a sweet and tangy flavor that is quintessentially Chinese. Next, sauté the garlic in a large skillet until it becomes fragrant. Add the marinated chicken and cook until it becomes golden brown and crispy on the outside.
While the chicken is cooking, mix together the cornstarch and water in a small bowl to make a slurry. Once the chicken is cooked through, add the cornstarch slurry to the skillet and stir until the sauce thickens. Serve the Chinese style chicken over a bed of steamed rice and garnish with thinly sliced green onions.
Chinese Style Fried Chicken Recipe
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 30 mins
Total Time: 50 mins
Course: Meats
Cuisine: Chinese
Servings: 8
Calories: 281.8kcal
Ingredients
- 1 chicken about 2 1/2 lb
- Oil for deep frying about 900 ml
- 1 tbsp Complete Chinese seasoning powder
- 1/2 tbsp five spice powder
- For Sauce
- 3 tbsp. oyster sauce
- 1 tbsp. ketchup
- 4 tbsp. water
- 1 tsp. cornstarch
- 1 tsp. minced ginger
- 2 tsp minced garlic
- 1 tbsp. olive oil
- 2 sprigs chive chopped finely (for garnish)
Instructions
- Clean chicken, removing excess fat, wash with lime and cut into quarters. Season with 1 tbsp of Chinese Seasoning. Rub the season all over the chicken and leave to marinate for about 20 minutes.
- Heat the oil. While the oil is heating up, sprinkle 1/2 tbsp of 5 spice powder and rub it in the chicken. Fry until golden and well cooked. Then drain. Note: I cooked my chicken over a low fire for about 25 minutes, and it was cooked right down to the bone.
- Make the sauce. Mix the water, oyster sauce, ketchup and cornstarch. (A variation is to substitute the oyster sauce for garlic sauce, hoisin sauce, plum sauce, black bean sauce or any other sauce of your choice.)
- Heat 1 tbsp oil in the wok. Saute the ginger and garlic for 1 minute. Then add the mixture and let cook for about 2 minutes over a low fire.
- Chop the chicken into desired pieces arrange on a bed of lettuce then place chicken. Pour some of the sauce over chicken and garnish with chopped chive.
Notes
For a really authentic Chinese restaurant taste make sure to use Sincere’s Complete Chinese Seasoning (with or without msg).
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Chinese Style Fried Chicken
Ingredients
- 1 chicken about 2 1/2 lb
- Oil for deep frying about 900 ml
- 1 tbsp Complete Chinese seasoning powder
- 1/2 tbsp five spice powder
- For Sauce
- 3 tbsp. oyster sauce
- 1 tbsp. ketchup
- 4 tbsp. water
- 1 tsp. cornstarch
- 1 tsp. minced ginger
- 2 tsp minced garlic
- 1 tbsp. olive oil
- 2 sprigs chive chopped finely (for garnish)
Instructions
- Clean chicken, removing excess fat, wash with lime and cut into quarters. Season with 1 tbsp of Chinese Seasoning. Rub the season all over the chicken and leave to marinate for about 20 minutes.
- Heat the oil. While the oil is heating up, sprinkle 1/2 tbsp of 5 spice powder and rub it in the chicken. Fry until golden and well cooked. Then drain. Note: I cooked my chicken over a low fire for about 25 minutes, and it was cooked right down to the bone.
- Make the sauce. Mix the water, oyster sauce, ketchup and cornstarch. (A variation is to substitute the oyster sauce for garlic sauce, hoisin sauce, plum sauce, black bean sauce or any other sauce of your choice.)
- Heat 1 tbsp oil in the wok. Saute the ginger and garlic for 1 minute. Then add the mixture and let cook for about 2 minutes over a low fire.
- Chop the chicken into desired pieces arrange on a bed of lettuce then place chicken. Pour some of the sauce over chicken and garnish with chopped chive.
