Oil Dripped Chicken

Name: Oil Dripped Chicken (Yu lin tzu chi)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon shredded green onion; 1 whole young chicken (about 2 pounds); 2 tablespoons sesame oil; 1 teaspoon brown peppercorn powder; 5 tablespoons soy sauce; 1 tablespoons wine; 3 slices ginger; 1 star anise; 5 cups oil; 2 green onions

Yu lin tzu chi

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

1 whole young chicken (about 2 pounds)
1 tablespoon shredded green onion

Asia
Taiwan
Sichuan
Hunan
Kweichow
Hupeh
Main course
Western China

Method

Clean chicken, then marinate with soy sauce, wine, green onion, ginger slices and star anise. Let stand for 1 hour at least.
Steam chicken in marinade for about 20 minutes, remove from steamer and then remove chicken. Save the juice.
Heat the oil in frying pan, deep fry chicken for about 3 minutes, until the skin is crispy and the color is brown. Take