Sichuan Spicy Chicken

Name: Sichuan Spicy Chicken (La Zi Ji)
Yield: Serves 4 as part of a multicourse meal
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons cornstarch; Oil, for deep-frying; ½ teaspoon salt; 1 tablespoon store-bought chili oil or homemade Chili oil; 10 oz (330 g) skinless, boneless chicken meat (breasts, thighs, or legs), cut into bite-sized cubes; ½ tablespoon Chinese rice wine or sherry; 3 cloves garlic, thinly sliced; ¼ teaspoon sugar; 3 green onions (scallions), white parts only, trimmed and cut into small rounds; 1 tablespoon Sichuan peppercorn oil; Salt to taste; 20 dried red finger-length chilies, deseeded and cut into 2 in (5 cm) lengths; ½ teaspoon chicken bouillon powder

La Zi Ji

Preparation info

Serves
4
as part of a multicourse meal

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Easy Chinese Recipes

By Bee Yinn Low

Published 2011

About

I first encountered Sichuan Spicy Chicken, or Chongqing La Zi Ji, at a Sichuan restaurant in China. At the restaurant, almost every table had a serving of a chicken dish buried under a mountain heap of dried red chilies. I tried the dish and was instantly hooked on the aromatic, fiery, numbing, and deeply flavorful chicken. It was delicious! According to my local friend, Sichuan Spicy Chicken was invented some 14 years ago in a small restaurant outside of Chongqing, the capita

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Asia
China
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