Name: Fried Chicken Wings with XFF Spices (香脆炸鸡翅)
Yield: Serves 2 as an appetizer
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 5 cups (600 ml) vegetable oil; ¼ teaspoon white pepper powder; 6 whole chicken wings; 2 teaspoons oyster sauce; ½ teaspoon Sichuan peppercorn powder; ½ teaspoon garlic powder; ⅛ teaspoon salt; ½ teaspoon white pepper powder; 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon salt; ½ teaspoon dried chili powder; 2 tablespoons cornstarch

Preparation info

Serves
2
as an appetizer

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Xi'an Famous Foods

By Jason Wang

Published 2020

About

I spent many afternoons doing homework in the dining rooms of various Chinese restaurants, and during those slow hours my dad would show off his various experiments. One of those experiments turned out to be a precursor of our Spicy and Tingly Cumin Chicken Wing Skewers (⁴ Thanks to the double-frying process, the skin pops and crackles with each bite, amplifying the juiciness of the dark meat below. You could make your own fried chicke