Chilli chicken

This is a good old fast and furious stir-fry that is full of the things that are so good together.  The heat from the chilli and the sweet from the sugar, garlic, and ginger perfect and easy to cook.  Just remember that you have your vegetables cut in a similar size and shape and they will all cook together at the same time.

For this dish you will need.

4 garlic cloves

2.5cm/1in piece fresh ginger

1 red chilli,

½ red pepper,

½ yellow peppers

12 cherry tomatoes

5 tbsp water or more of water

1 tsp light brown sugar

1 tbsp groundnut oil

1 tbsp sesame seed oil

250g/9oz skinless chicken breast fillets, sliced

1 courgette

2 tbsp light soy sauce

2 large spring onions

¼ tbsp corn flour

First make sure that your peppers, onions, and courgette are all sliced and that the garlic, ginger, and chilli are chopped.  Once you get cooking, it will come together really quickly.

Get your wok on the stove top and heat it up so it is very hot, smoking hot.  Slice your chicken in to strips and then add a little groundnut oil and start by cooking your chicken.  Once the chicken has cooked, take it out of the wok and then return the wok to the heat.

Take the sesame seed oil and add that to the wok . Now add the chilli, ginger, and garlic along with the light brown sugar.  Let this all cook together, if you have to add a little water to sop the sugar from burning.  Now add the pepper spring onion and courgette and stir-fry this till they start to soften.  Now add the soy sauce and the rest of the water with the corn flour mixed in to the water.

As the sauce, starts to thicken add the chicken that you cook first and let every thing get coated with the sauce.  Finally add the tomatoes and stir them round and that is it the dish is finished.  Just take it off the heat and in to a dish or on the plate.

All you have to remember is that you have every thing ready before you start to cook and you will find that this is a easy thing to cook.