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Chinese Hot and Spicy Chicken

This Hunan style chicken is made with hot peppers and a flavorful ginger and sherry marinade.

Prep Time: 30 minutes
Marinate: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 60 minutes

Marinade Ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon shredded ginger
• 1 tablespoon sherry
• 2 tablespoons light soy sauce

Ingredients:

• 2 pounds boneless chicken breasts and thighs, without skin, cut into bite-size pieces
• 2 green onions
• 2 to 3 small hot chile peppers
• 1/2 cup chicken broth
• 1 tablespoon light soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons wine vinegar
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• salt, to taste
• 3/4 teaspoon freshly ground anise or Szechuan pepper
• 3 to 4 tablespoons oil
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch

Instructions:

Marinate chicken for 20 minutes in ginger, sherry, soy sauce mixture.

Cut green onions and hot peppers diagonally into 1-inch pieces.

Mix chicken broth, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, wine vinegar, sugar, salt and the anise pepper.

Heat oil. Add scallion, and stir fry for a few minutes. Add ginger, sherry, soy mixture and chicken to scallions and hot pepper, and stir-fry for about 2 minutes longer. Add chicken broth mixture, mix well. Cook over low heat until chicken pieces are tender. Add cornstarch to thicken.

Serve with hot cooked rice.

Serves 4.