Beaten Chicken Ban Ban Ji Food

BEATEN CHICKEN (BAN BAN JI)

Steps:

• Poach the chicken breasts very gently, for about 20 minutes total.
• Leave them in the water to cool down. Shred them into matchstick.
• sized pieces of chicken (you can decide whether it's big kitchen.
• matches or little, book matches).
• Mix all the other ingredients in a kitchen blender or food processor.
• until well-blended. (This recipe, very minimally adapted from the.
• book noted below, is a double recipe. My blender, all 650 watts of.
• brute horsepower, had trouble moving the entire quantity once the.
• lower part was well- blended -- it would have been better to have.
• made this in two regular- sized batches, rather than one double-sized.
• batch.).
• Serve the room-temperature sauce over the room-temperature chicken.
• (Obviously, can be prepared well ahead of time. Don't shred the.
• chicken until at most a few hours before the meal, however, because.
• it will dry out.) Suggestion: spoon half the sauce over the chicken.
• just before it's served; reserve the other half for people who want.
• extra "zip" in their dish. Garnishes optional.
• Caution: direct from the cookbook, this produces a fairly spicy sauce.
• to put on the chicken. But for people who REALLY want a hot dish,.
• you can add an almost arbitrary amount of red oil (pepper oil) to the.
• dish, maybe just cutting back on the sesame oil or the soy sauce if.
• you do so. I've had this dish so hot that my lips went numb -- best.
• "bung-bung" (as it's usually spelled) chicken in the world!