Railway station chicken

Name: Railway station chicken
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Burmese
Ingredients: 2 cloves garlic, crushed; 3 tbsp fish sauce; groundnut or vegetable oil; salt and pepper; a small bunch of fresh coriander; 3 cm piece fresh root ginger, peeled and finely shredded; 2 large free-range chicken breasts, skinned; 2 red birdseye chillies, finely sliced; 5 tbsp lime juice; 2 tbsp caster sugar

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food and Travels

By Alastair Hendy

Published 2004

About

Eaten in, and therefore christened after, Yangon railway station. Old Rangoon’s terminus to Empire. Our chick was much more exuberant than the weary tables and cloths of the station’s forecourt restaurant had led us to expect.

Ingredients

2 cloves garlic, crushed
3 cm piece fresh root ginger, peeled and finely shredded
2

Asia
Myanmar (Burma)
Yangon
Main course
Starter
South East Asia
Gluten-free

Method

For the dipping sauce, mix together the first six ingredients and stir until the sugar has fully dissolved. Cut the chicken breasts into small chunks, then tumble with a little salt and pepper and 1 tbsp of the dipping sauce, cover, and leave to bathe for about 30 minutes. Heat a shallow pool of oil in a wok, then fry the chicken nuggets in two batches for 3-4 minutes, or until cooked through,