Spicy Chicken Cubes Recipe

One of the most famous spicy Chinese food-spicy chicken cubes recipe, which combines the crispy peanuts, tangy cucumber, spicy chilies and meaty chicken together, really tasty and refreshing. This easy to make recipe is also very fast to cook.

Wok, bowls, plate.

7 oz./200g chicken breast, cut into small cubes (P1)

1/2 cucumber, cut into small cubes

1 cup peanuts

3-5 chilies, diced

1 tbsp.chopped scallion

2 garlic cloves, sliced

4 tbsps.vegetable oil for stir-frying

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1 tbsp.light soy sauce

1 tbsp.ground black pepper

1 tbsp.Chinese rice wine, or dry sherry

1 tbsp.sesame oil

1 tsp.salt, or to taste

1. Preheat a wok on medium-high heat for at least 30 seconds before you add 2 tbsps.vegetable oil, add peanuts and stir fry over low heat until fragrant, do not brown, about 3 minutes, then transfer to a plate for later use (P2).

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2. Heat another 2 tbsps.vegetable oil in the same wok till hot, saute chopped scallion, garlic cloves, and chilies until aromatic, about 30-50 seconds (P3).

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3. Put the chicken cubes back into the wok in which it was cooked, stir fry for 1-2 minutes over medium heat (P4).

P4

4. Then add cucumber cubes, stir into all the seasonings, stirring and tossing, add the cooked peanuts when cucumber cubes soften, stir briefly to mix everything together (P5).

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5. Remove them from the wok to a plate, serve immediately (P6).

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