Lee's 3 Cup Chicken - Taiwanese Recipe

3 Cup Chicken 

Taiwanese Recipe

Today, I am delighted to share with you, my friend Lee Fang Hao's signature Taiwanese recipe for 3 Cup Chicken. The first time Lee cooked this for me and my friends, he completely impressed us with his cooking skills to the extent that the next time he invited us over, we asked him to prepare it again. Only this time, I took note of how he made it, so that I can try it myself. Read till the end to find a picture of Lee! Single girls, contact me if you find him cute ;) Perhaps I'll be able to arrange a date :p

Coming back to the recipe, it calls for equal parts soy sauce, rice wine and sesame oil to create a deep red sauce for coating chopped pieces of boneless chicken. These are the "three cups" as the dish's name suggests. Although it says 'cups', it needs no more than a 'bottle-cover' measure of each of the three main ingredients. However, this Taiwanese delicacy is not just about the "three cups". It gets its wonderfully distinct flavours from chunks of garlic & ginger and the wonderful spiciness from its chillies. So, what are you waiting for? Get together your ingredients and let's begin!

Ingredients

Boneless chicken pieces

100 ml sesame oil

100 ml soy sauce

100 ml rice wine

a handful of basil leaves

2 inches of ginger sliced finely

8-10 garlic cloves

Spring onions and mushrooms, chopped (optional)

3 huge red chillies, sliced

1 tbsp brown sugar

Procedure

Heat sesame oil in a pan and add the ginger and garlic. Fry till golden brown. Add the chillies and  keep frying. 

 Add brown sugar and stir.

 Add boneless chicken and stir.

 Add soy sauce and stir till the chicken is well-coated.

 Add rice wine in equal amount to the soy sauce.

 Add sesame oil in equal amount to the rice wine and soy sauce. Toss it all in the pan and cook for 10-15 minutes or until the sauces are absorbed by the chicken and it is cooked through. Make sure the sauces don't completely run dry. You want your chicken to be juicy.

Last but not the least, add the basil leaves and stir well till it turns limp and absorbs the juices.

...and it's ready! Serve it with steamed rice!

That's Lee and that's his usual facial expression... for almost everything ;) 

Hope you like this recipe! Comment below and let me know how it turns out for you! If you love pork, try it with pork or even prawns! Whatever you do, it turns out best with chicken! This is me Salo signing off for now, until next time! Ciao!