Chicken with Green Pepper

Name: Chicken with Green Pepper (Ma la tzu chi)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon soy sauce; 2 tablespoons soy sauce; ½ egg white; 1 tablespoon cornstarch paste; 3 tablespoons garlic (sliced); 3 cups oil; 2 green peppers; 3 red peppers; 1 pound chicken (meat); 1 pound chicken (meat); ½ teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon sugar; 1 teaspoon sesame oil; 1 teaspoon cornstarch; ½ tablespoon wine; 1 tablespoon brown vinegar

Ma la tzu chi

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

1 pound chicken (meat)
2 green peppers
3 red peppers</

Asia
Taiwan
Kweichow
Hunan
Sichuan
Hupeh
Main course
Western China

Method

Remove all bone from chicken, cut into 1” cubes. Soak with 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 1 tablespoon cornstarch, ½ egg white mixture for at least ½ hour.
Remove seeds and stem from green peppers and red peppers, cut into 1” squares, slice garlic.
Heat 3 cups oil to boiling point, fry chicken about ½ minutes until done, remove chicken from pan and drain oil