Deep Fried Spiced Chicken

Name: Deep Fried Spiced Chicken (Cha pa ku’ai)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 3 slices ginger; 1 star anise; 2 teaspoons flavored peppercorn salt; 1 green onion; ½ egg white; 1 tablespoon cornstarch; 4 tablespoons soy sauce; 1 tablespoons wine; 6 cups oil; 1 teaspoon sesame oil; 1 chicken (about ¼ pounds)

Cha pa ku’ai

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

1 chicken (about ¼ pounds)
1 teaspoon sesame oil

Asia
Taiwan
Honan
Shansi
Shantung
Hopeh
Main course

Method

Clean the chicken and cut in half, then cut each half into 4 pieces. Place in a bowl and marinate with green onion, ginger, star anise, soy sauce, wine, egg white and cornstarch for ½ hour.
Heat oil in frying pan and drop in chicken to deep fry for 3 minutes. Take out, heat oil again until very hot, then fry once more about 1 minute until brown. Remove chicken