Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Mom's sweet sour chicken

My Thoughts

Normally, the chicken pieces has to be deep fried before cooking in the sauce. 

I didn't want to clean an oily kitchen, so I stir fried the chicken pieces. 


Ingredients

  • 3 pieces de-boned chicken whole leg (chicken chop) 
  • 1 tbsp chinese cooking wine
  • Some cornflour
  • Salt
  • 1 tsp of sesame oil 
  • 1 small cucumber
  • 1/2 capsicum - seeded, cut into small squares
  • 3 garlic - minced
  • 1/2 onion - cut into wedges
  • 1 small tomato - cut into wedges
  • Sauce (Mix)
    • 4 tbsp tomato ketchup 
    • 2 tbsp Lingham chilli sauce
    • 1 tsp plum sauce 
    • 1/2 tsp worcestershire sauce
    • 1/2 tsp oyster sauce
    • 1 tsp Chinese rice vinegar
    • 1 tbsp sugar
    • 4 tbsp water
    • 1/2 tsp cornstarch 
    • Dash of white pepper

Method
  1. Remove skin from chicken. Cut into bite size. 
  2. Marinate the chicken pieces with corn flour, cooking wine and salt. Add the corn flour little by little. Make sure to coat each piece of chicken. Add sesame oil
  3. Remove skin from cucumber.  Cut into 4 lengthwise. Remove seeds. Cut slant into bite size
  4. Add 2 tbsp oil. Medium heat. Stir fry chicken till cooked. Set aside.
  5. In another pan, saute garlic in a little oil.
  6. Add in the sauce. Low heat. Stir till boil
  7. Add in cucumber, onion, capsicum,  tomato and chicken.
  8. Let it cook a while.
  9. Turn off heat and and serve while hot.
KashRating: 5 stars

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