In the series of dishes ready in less than 20 minutes, I present to you this delicious Chinese garlic chicken. Like many Chinese street food dishes, it is optimized to be cooked and served very, very quickly.
The ingredients for garlic chicken
Light soy sauce: Classic salty soy sauce that can be found in absolutely all supermarkets nowadays. Really no excuse not to get some!
Shaoxing wine: Chinese cooking wine essential to many dishes on the site. Click to find out how to substitute it, but well, it won’t be the same
Sesame oil: Flavored oil with a divine taste, which is even very powerful… so be careful not to overuse it!
Corn starch or cornflour: On one hand, it allows for an incredible texture for the meat and on the other, it thickens the sauce for a nice syrupy consistency as we like it
How to make garlic chicken?
Nothing could be simpler! As I write this, I even think that this somewhat descriptive section is completely unnecessary for this recipe hahaha.
Basically, you just need to heat up a pan or a wok. Meanwhile, cut your chicken and mix the sauce.
Then, all you have to do is first sauté the chicken and finally add the sauce and thicken it all. And voilà, done in less than 15 minutes if you manage the parallel timings well
Chinese Garlic Chicken
Matériel
- 1 Wok
Ingredients
- 400 g of chicken, diced
SAUCE
- 5 cloves of garlic, sliced
- 70 g light soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon of sesame oil
- 2 tablespoons of Shaoxing wine
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
Procédé
- Mix the sauce in a bowl
- Sear the chicken in a pan over medium-high heat with a little oil for 2-3 minutes
- Add the sauce and stir for 5-7 minutes until the chicken is cooked and the sauce thickens
