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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!
- 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
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
Add oil to hot wok, then stir fry chicken over medium heat until 50% cooked and the skin is golden brown.
- 3
When it boils, turn down to a simmer. Cook covered for 15 minutes.
- 4
Garnish with the rest of your sweet basil.