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Three Cup Chicken (三杯鸡) Recipe

 ·  ☕ 2 min read  ·  ✍️ Lelia Norton

Three Cup Chicken (三杯鸡)
Three Cup Chicken (三杯鸡)

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, three cup chicken (三杯鸡). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Three Cup Chicken (三杯鸡) is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Three Cup Chicken (三杯鸡) is something that I have loved my entire life.

A true and authentic Taiwanese three cup chicken calls for basil leaves, the soul of the dish that lends an exotic aroma and minty nuance to the taste. Taiwanese also love all sorts of "three cup" recipes, for example three cup squid (三杯小卷), tofu, mushrooms or eggplant. Traditionally, three cup chicken is made with an entire chicken, carved-up, bone-in, and skin-on. It's braised in a sweet and savory broth until it gets a nice, sticky glaze.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook three cup chicken (三杯鸡) using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Three Cup Chicken (三杯鸡):
  1. Take 2 chicken breasts
  2. Take 10 garlic cloves
  3. Take 2 large ginger roots
  4. Get 5 dried red pepper
  5. Make ready 1/3 cup sesame oil
  6. Take 1/2 cup rice wine
  7. Make ready 1/4 cup soy sauce
  8. Get 3 tbsp sugar
  9. Make ready 3 cup fresh basil

Cut chicken breasts to small cubes. Add chicken cubes and cold water to a pot, then heat to boil. Three Cup Chicken–regardless of whether or not you've heard of it, you'll definitely like it. Three-cup chicken (San Bei Ji 三杯鸡) is original from Jiangxi province.

Steps to make Three Cup Chicken (三杯鸡):
  1. Cut chicken breasts to small cubes.
  2. Add chicken cubes and cold water to a pot, then heat to boil. Once boiled, remove the water and set the chicken aside for later.
  3. Cut ginger roots to thin slices.
  4. Heat up a pan with medium-low heat and add 1/4 cup sesame oil. Add ginger slices to the pan, and cook to dry crispy slices. Then add garlic cloves and dried red peppers to the pan.
  5. Mix rice wine, soy sauce, and sugar in a separate bowl. Then add the sauce to the pan. Add chicken to the pan, mix well, and continue cooking for 5-10 minutes, or until the sauce is mostly cooked off.
  6. Add in fresh basil to the pan and mix well. Blend in the rest of sesame oil.
  7. Delicious Three Cup chicken ready to serve!
  8. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

Three Cup Chicken–regardless of whether or not you've heard of it, you'll definitely like it. Three-cup chicken (San Bei Ji 三杯鸡) is original from Jiangxi province. Now it is famous in Taiwan. Three cup chicken (san bei ji 三杯鸡) is a uniquely Taiwanese delicacy of chicken braised in sesame oil, Chinese wine and soy sauces. Loads of fresh basil flavour punctuates the sauce, giving this dish its amazingly bold and exciting flavours!

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