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Three Cups Four Flavors Chicken 三杯四味雞

This simple to prepare Three Bowls Four Flavors Chicken 三杯四味雞 is a perfectly balanced sweet and sour tender chicken dish, a soy flavored dish kissed with aromatic vinegar that is really out of this world!

Three Cups Four Flavors Chicken  三杯四味雞
Prep time
10 min
Cook time
20 min
Yield
3 servings
Difficulty
MEDIUM

Ingredients

Quantities are shown as originally provided.

  • 1 cup Shao Hsing rice wine
  • 1 cup light soy sauce
  • 1/2 cup rice vinegar
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 tsp corn starch
  • 1 chicken, bone in, cut to sections
  • 2 tbsp oil
  • 3 spring onions, white part only, cut to 1 inch lengths
  • 10 sweet basil leaves

Instructions

  1. 1

    Mix together wine, soy sauce, vinegar and sugar. Add 3 tbsp of this mixture and the starch to the chicken, stir throughly and let marinate for 10 minutes.

  2. 2

    Add oil to hot wok, then stir fry chicken over medium heat until 50% cooked and the skin is golden brown.

  3. 3

    When it boils, turn down to a simmer. Cook covered for 15 minutes.

  4. 4

    Garnish with the rest of your sweet basil.

Original from thehongkongcookery.com

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