Chicken with Black Bean Sauce
Instructions:
- 4 whole chicken breasts
- 1 teaspoon fresh minced ginger
- 2 teaspoons fermented black beans
- 3 teaspoons minced scallions (white part only)
- 4 ounces Peking Stir Fry sauce (see recipe below)
- 12 ounces unseasoned chicken stock
- 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- Dash of white pepper
- Peking Stir Fry Sauce:
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 teaspoons Shaohsing wine or sherry
- 2 teaspoons mushroom soy sauce
- 2 teaspoons oyster sauce
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- Cut whole chicken breasts in half so you have 8 breast filets. Cut all breast filets on a bias. Marinate with one egg, 2 tablespoons canola oil and 1 tablespoon cornstarch.
- Heat wok until hot. Add oil, then chicken and cook until opaque all over.
- Strain and remove excess oil from wok.
- Add ginger, scallion and stir fry. Add chicken and garlic. Then add Peking stir fry sauce and add chicken stock.
- Add sugar, then a dash of white pepper.
- Thicken with a thin paste of cornstarch and water to your liking.
- Peking Stir Fry Sauce Mix ingredients together until cornstarch is incorporated. Stir well before using.
- Serves 4