Paper Wrapped Fried Chicken

Name: Paper Wrapped Fried Chicken (Chih pao chi)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 6 cups oil; 2 tablespoons sesame oil; 1 tablespoon wine; 2 black mushrooms (1” round); ½ teaspoon salt; 2 slices ham; ¼ teaspoon black pepper; 15 squares of cellophane paper (5” x 5”); 1 teaspoon sugar; 15 parsley leaves; 1 pound chicken breast meat (or 3 chicken legs); 3 tablespoons soy sauce; 1 pound chicken breast meat (or 3 chicken legs)

Chih pao chi

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

1 pound chicken breast meat (or 3 chicken legs)
3 tablespoons

Asia
Taiwan
Kiangsu
Main course

Method

Cut the chicken meat (with skin) into 1” wide, 2” long cross-wise slices, lay in bowl and marinate with soy sauce, sugar, salt, wine and black pepper about 15 minutes.
Soak mushrooms in warm water and remove stems. Cut each in 8 small triangular pieces.
Slice the ham and cut it into the same size as mushrooms.
Using 1 sheet of paper at a tim