Stir-Fried Chicken in Hot Bean Sauce

Name: Stir-Fried Chicken in Hot Bean Sauce
Yield: Serves 3 to 4 as a main course, 6 to 7 as part of a multicourse meal
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 1 tender inner rib celery, cut diagonally into thin commas; ¼ to ½ teaspoon sugar; 1 cup Napa cabbage ribbons (1½ inches wide); 2 tablespoons soy sauce; 1 tablespoon Chinese rice wine or dry sherry; 1 to 1½ teaspoons paper-thin rings of red Fresno and/or yellow wax chilis; 1 large egg white; 1 tablespoon cornstarch dissolved in 1½ tablespoons cold chicken stock or water; ½ cup 2-inch lengths Chinese longbeans or flavorful green or yellow beans; 1 tablespoon finely minced garlic; 1 pound skinless, boneless fresh chicken breasts (about 2 pounds with bone and skin), cut across the grain into ribbons about 2 inches long and ¼ inch wide; ½ cup China Moon Infusion, China Moon Double Stock, or unsalted chicken stock; 2 tablespoons thinly sliced green and white scallion rings; 1 tablespoon finely minced fresh ginger; 2½ to 3 tablespoons corn or peanut oil, for stir-frying; 1 tablespoon hot bean sauce; 1 small carrot, cut diagonally into rippled or plain coins ⅛ inch thick; 1 tablespoon unseasoned Japanese rice vinegar; ½ cup fried or roasted peanuts, for garnish; 1 small yellow onion, cut into ¼-inch half-moons; 1 teaspoon kosher salt; 1 tablespoon cornstarch; 1 small red (bell) pepper, cut into ¼-inch strips

Preparation info

Serves
3 to 4
as a main course

Difficulty
Complex

Appears in

China Moon Cookbook

By Barbara Tropp

Published 1992

About

The kitchen staff loves this dish! No matter how weary our palates get tasting and adjusting all the dozens of things that go by in the course of a working day, the pleasures of chicken, peanuts, and chili are a sure lure to wakefulness. Lunch or dinner, winter or summer, this is one of my personal favorites.

The slicing, mincing, and marinating can all be done ahead. The stir-frying, to be perfect, should be done at the last minute.

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Asia
China
Dinner
Summer
Winter

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