Salt & Pepper Chicken

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 chicken breasts, thinly sliced into strips
• flour
• cornflour
• water
• 1 onion, sliced
• 1 red pepper, sliced
• 3 green chilies, sliced
• sea salt
• black pepper
• oil (for frying)

Recipe

• 1 make a batter with flour, cornflour and water. you need about two-thirds flour and one-third cornflour. mix with water to the consistency of double cream.
• 2 stir in the chicken strips until they are evenly coated.
• 3 heat oil in a wok or deep-fryer. the oil should be deep enough to completely cover the pieces of chicken when they are put in it.
• 4 once the oil is hot (test by dropping in some of the batter off a teaspoon - it should rise quickly to the surface sizzling gently), add the pieces of chicken a few at a time and fry until golden-brown. you will need to do this in several batches. as each batch is cooked, put to one side to drain.
• 5 take a clean wok and heat a couple of tablespoons of oil in it.
• 6 when hot, add the onions, pepper and chilli and stir fried for a couple of minutes until the onion starts to turn translucent.
• 7 add the fried chicken strips and stir thoroughly for a minute or two.
• 8 stir in a generous quantity of sea salt and ground black pepper.
• 9 serve immediately with rice and vegetables.