Deep Fried Spiced Boneless Chicken

Name: Deep Fried Spiced Boneless Chicken (Sheng cha ch’u ku chi)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 5 chicken legs (or 2 chicken breasts); 3 slices ginger (to marinate chicken); 5 chicken legs (or 2 chicken breasts); 3 pieces scallion (4” long); 3 slices ginger (to marinate chicken); 5 tablespoons soy sauce; 2 star anise (whole); 6 cups oil; 1 tablespoon wine; 1 tablespoon sesame oil; 2 tablespoons chopped scallion; 1 tablespoon oil; 1 tablespoon sugar

Sheng cha ch’u ku chi

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

5 chicken legs (or 2 chicken breasts)
3 slices ginger (to marinate chicken

Asia
Taiwan
Starter

Method

After removing the bones from the chicken leg, score the stringy part of the chicken leg with knife a few times.
Crush the scallion, the ginger, and the star anise. Put them in a large bowl. Add the soy sauce, wine and sugar. Mix thoroughly and marinate the chicken for at least half an hour.
Heat the oil in a pan. When the oil is very hot, deep fry th