Chicken with Orange and Black Bean Sauce
A quick Chinese chicken with orange and black bean sauce with chicken breast, orange juice, light soy sauce. Ready in under 30 minutes.
Ingredients
- 1 chicken breast
- 4 tbspn orange juice
- 1 tspn cornflour (1)
- 1 tbspn light soy sauce
- 1 tbspn oil
- 3 tbspn rice wine or dry sherry
- 1 tspn ginger (finely chopped)
- 2½ tbspn black bean sauce
- 1 tspn garlic (finely chopped)
- 2 tbspn soft brown sugar
- 2 spring onions
- 30 gm bean sprouts (optional)
- 50 gm green pepper
- 1 tspn cornflour (2)
Method
- 1
Slice the chicken into thin strips (about ¼" thick).
- 2
Add the cornflour (1) into a suitable bowl and mix with a little oil.
- 3
Add the chicken strips and mix to coat and set aside.
- 4
Finely chop the ginger.
- 5
Finely chop the garlic.
- 6
Slice the spring onions diagonally.
- 7
De-seed and cut the green pepper into approx 1 inch squares.
- 8
In another suitable bowl add the orange juice, soy sauce, rice wine (or dry sherry), black bean sauce and sugar and mix well to dissolve the sugar.
- 9
In another small bowl mix the cornflour (2) with 2 tspn of water and mix well.
- 10
Heat the oil in a wok to a high heat and add the chicken strips and cook, stirring regularly, for about or until fully cooked, then remove from the pan onto kitchen paper.