Salt and Pepper Chicken - HongKongStyle - 避風塘炒雞脯

Difficulty - 3/5 

Ingredients 

• 2pc(11/2lb)Chicken Breast (clean and cut into 1/2 inch)
• 1/4 red and bell pepper(diced)
• 2pcs green onion(chopped)
• 1/4 sweet onion(diced)
• 2 tbs butter(un/salted)
• 1tbs preserved black been(washed)
• 2 tbs fried onion
• 4 pcs glove(minced )
• 3 pcs/1 tbs dry Thai chili(crushed)
• 1/4tbs salt
• 1/4 tbs chicken powder
• (Few pc lettuce for plating)
• Seasoning 
• 11/2 ts cooking wine
• 1 ts sesame oil
• 1/2 ts salt
• 1/2 chicken powder
• 1/4 cup water
• 1/2 ts baking powder
• 1/4 ts baking soda
• 1/4 cup cornstarch 

In a big bowl and marinate the cut up chicken with all the seasoning for 30 mins then add 1/4 cup vegetables/peanut oil before frying.

Cut into strips for easy dicing. Trim off excess fat. It makes it easier to trim the breast meat in half THICKNESS wise.

Cut in opposite direction for the dice cuts.  You want the pieces to be uniform so they fry evenly.

Evenly marinaded chicken pieces ready for frying. (WASH HANDS!!)

In a big sauce pan or wok and fill it with vegetable/ peanut oil and heat up the oil with medium high heat to about 350-375 degree.

Use thermometer if have one. If you dont have one, just drop one piece into the oil with a pair of chopsticks. If it browned right away , that means the oil is ready.
**Make sure don't overcrowd the wok/pan. Too much meat will lower the oil's temperature.

Take about 3-5mins for the chicken to be cooked (wait for couple mins to let the oil heat up again before fry again)and put the cooked chicken onto a plate with paper towel.

In another pan/wok and bring it medium heat with butter then add garlic, black bean, Thai chili, onion and fried onion first. Stir fried for 30 sec. Then add the green onion, red,bell pepper ,salt and chicken powder in high heat for another 30 sec. 

Then add the fried chicken into the wok/ pan, stir it evenly and serve it with few pcs of lettuce.

Annnnnd here is the final product! One of my personal favorites to make as well as eat.  Lots of spice and rich savory flavors in this dish.  Extra spicy is the way to go but that depends on your tastes.

Have fun and enjoy Salt and Pepper Chicken! My wife ate almost all of it (she loves it so much!)

Hoby~