Chicken with Dried Chillies

Ingredients

• 1 chicken (or use chicken thighs) - debone and slice
• 20 - 30 dried chillies (the big dark colored ones - I think they are called oil chillies)
• 4 garlic - slice fine
• 4 slices ginger
• 1/2 tsp cornflour
• dash of pepper
• 1/2 tsp sugar
• 1 Tbs soy sauce
• Chinese wine

Sauce

• 1 tsp cornflour
• 8 Tbs water
• 2 Tbs dark soy sauce
• 1 - 2 Tbs sugar

Directions

- Season chicken with salt and all the ingredients listed above (not the sauce) for half an hour
- Put 5 Tbs oil in the pan and fry the dried chillies till almost black and aromatic.
- Add garlic and ginger slices halfway. Remove.
Heat oil to fry the chicken for a few minutes until almost cooked before pouring in the sauce. Turn off heat as soon as the sauce starts boiling.
- Spring onions, carrot slices or whatever you like can be added at the end of cooking time (to add colour and to stretch the dish if you are having more mouths to feed).
- Leftovers can be used to make fried beehoon (remove the dried chillies and rinse them out in hot water which can be used as stock for the beehoon).

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