Black Bean Sauce Chicken

Name: Black Bean Sauce Chicken
Yield: Serves 2 as a main dish with rice or 4 as part of a multicourse meal
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons fermented black beans (douchi), rinsed and coarsely chopped; 3 cloves garlic, finely minced; 2 teaspoons soy sauce; 1 tablespoon sugar; ½ small green bell pepper, deseeded and cut into pieces; 1 tablespoon Chinese rice wine or sherry; 1 teaspoon cornstarch; 8 oz (250 g) skinless, boneless chicken breast, cut into bite-sized cubes; 2½ tablespoons oil; ½ small onion, quartered Salt to taste; ½ small red bell pepper, deseeded and cut into pieces; 2 tablespoons water; 1 red finger-length chili, deseeded and cut into pieces; 3 dashes white pepper; ¼ teaspoon sesame oil; One 1 in (2.5 cm) piece fresh ginger, peeled and sliced into thin pieces

Preparation info

Serves
2
as a main dish with rice

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Easy Chinese Recipes

By Bee Yinn Low

Published 2011

About

When I was pursuing my Masters degree in the Midwest, Black Bean Sauce Chicken was my absolutely favorite comfort dish to prepare. It was also one of the most requested meals during weekend potluck parties. My Venezuelan friends loved this dish so much that they created a nickname for it: Chicken with Chinese Flies (“flies” because of the black color and somewhat fly-ish appearance of Chinese fermented black beans). They would pick the preserved black beans out, savorin

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Asia
China
Main course

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