hot pepper chicken

3 Pinches
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Ingredients

  • 2 chicken breasts
  • pinch salt
  • corn starch
  • 4 hot peppers, fresh
  • 1 tablespoon brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
  • 2 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 1 tablespoon wine
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1 cup peanuts
  • 2 tablespoons oil

How To Make hot pepper chicken

  • Step 1
    Cut chicken meat in sheets away from breast bone, slice into squares of 1x1\".
  • Step 2
    Dredge in a mixture of corn starch and salt on a piece of wax paper; allow pieces to dry individually on wax paper about 20 minutes.
  • Step 3
    Remove seeds from fresh peppers and coarsely cut into strips; reserve.
  • Step 4
    Mix sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, wine together in a small bowl; reserve.
  • Step 5
    Heat oil in wok until smoking, add dredged chicken, stir fry on all sides - If oil is hot enough for chicken, pieces will not stick to wok.
  • Step 6
    Add sugar and vinegar reserve, hot peppers; cover wok.
  • Step 7
    Add 1/2 cup water, cook over medium heat 5 minutes; self gravy should form in the bottom of wok.
  • Step 8
    Stir chicken in gravy so it will cook in gravy.
  • Step 9
    Gravy should become gelatinous after 5 minutes of cooking.
  • Step 10
    If gravy becomes too thick, thin gravy out with small amounts of water.
  • Step 11
    Sprinkle in 1 cup of peanuts, mix thoroughly.
  • Step 12
    NOTE: Canned hot peppers are too soft to be used for this dish - If desired, dried cayenne peppers can be reconstituted for use.
  • Step 13
    If you are fond of this dish, it is well to freeze your own hot peppers, in season.

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