Plum Sauce Chicken

Name: Plum Sauce Chicken
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: cucumber sticks, to garnish; 100 ml/3½ fl oz/scant ½ cup water; vegetable oil for deep-frying; 6 crackers, finely crushed (about ⅔ cup cracker crumbs); 15 ml/1 tbsp hoisin sauce; 45 ml/3 tbsp plum sauce; 2 skinless chicken breasts; 6 crackers, finely crushed (about ⅔ cup cracker crumbs); 1 egg, beaten

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

China

By Terry Tan

Published 2020

About

The fruity sweetness of plum sauce is the perfect foil for meat and poultry, either on its own or as an ingredient in a sweet-and-sour sauce. Here, it partners tender chicken that is coated with cracker crumbs and quickly deep-fried to give a flavoursome and crisp crust.

Ingredients

2 skinless chicken breasts
1 egg, beaten
6 crackers, finely crushed (about

Asia
China
Main course

Method

Cut each chicken breast into four pieces. Put the egg in one shallow bowl and the cracker crumbs in another. Heat the oil in a wok or deep-fryer.
Dip each piece of chicken in egg and then in cracker crumbs, patting the crumbs on firmly to coat. Discard any excess crumbs. Deep-fry, in batches if necessary, for 3–4 minutes, until golden brown and cooked. Using a