Spicy Chicken Le Tze Gee

Chinese Spicy Chicken or Le Tze Gee to use the ethnic title is a dish that will challenge your taste with subtle hints of spice rather than heavy doses of it. - Some spicy dishes are too heavy in one spice or another and that overpowers all other tastes. The Chinese are far more subtle in their use of spices and when this dish is prepared properly your taste buds are invaded with a variety of subtle tastes that combine to make spicy chicken a delight.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup vegetable Oil

2 Chicken breast fillets

1 tablespoon Sherry

1 tablespoon Light soy sauce

1 tablespoon Corn starch (Cornflour)

1 can Bamboo shoots dice

2 tablespoon Hoison sauce

1/2 teaspoon Red pepper crushed

1 tablespoon Scallion (Spring onions) chopped.

1 teaspoon Ginger; freshly grated

Method:

Cube chicken.

Mix sherry, soy sauce and corn starch. (Corn flour)

Marinate chicken in cornstarch mixture for 15 minutes.

Heat oil.

Add chicken cornstarch mixture and stir-fry for 2 minutes.

Remove chicken.

Add bamboo shoots, hoison sauce, scallion, ginger and crushed red peppers.

Stir well, then add chicken and serve.

This dish is enhanced when served with a glass of dry white wine, especially a Sauvignon Blanc.


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