How To Make Taiwanese-Style Three Cup Chicken
This three cup chicken is a favorite in Taiwan! Enjoy chicken chunks cooked in soy sauce, rice wine, Thai basil, and ginger, served over noodles or rice.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1tbspvegetable oil
- 1½lbchicken thighs,skinless, boneless, and cut into chunks
- ½cupsesame oil
- 10slicesfresh ginger
- 2garlic cloves,sliced
- ½cupdry sherry
- ⅓cupsoy sauce
- ¼cupwater
- 3tbspwhite sugar
- ½cupThai basil leaves,fresh
- 3red chilies,whole, dried
Instructions
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Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken pieces, and cook for about 5 minutes, until lightly browned on all sides. Remove chicken from skillet and set aside.
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Heat sesame oil in skillet, then add ginger and garlic. Cook and stir for about 30 seconds, until the ginger begins to brown.
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Stir in the reserved chicken, sherry, soy sauce, water, and sugar. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer for about 20 minutes, until there is only ¼ cup of liquid left in the skillet.
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Stir in the basil and chiles, and increase heat to medium. Continue cooking until the liquid is almost gone.
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Serve with noodles or rice. Enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 723.65kcal
- Fat: 59.21g
- Saturated Fat: 11.82g
- Trans Fat: 0.17g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 25.17g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 17.95g
- Carbohydrates: 14.21g
- Fiber: 0.53g
- Sugar: 9.87g
- Protein: 30.23g
- Cholesterol: 166.70mg
- Sodium: 1308.43mg
- Calcium: 29.90mg
- Potassium: 503.11mg
- Iron: 1.69mg
- Vitamin A: 49.19µg
- Vitamin C: 3.34mg
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