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Fried Chicken with Mung Bean Seedlings and Spicy Rice

5 from 6 votes
Prep Time 45 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Course Dinner
Cuisine European
Servings 2 people

Ingredients
 

Fried Chicken with Mung Bean Sprouts:

  • 300 g Chicken breast fillet
  • 1 egg white
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 1 tbsp Dark soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp Sweet soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp Sweet chili sauce
  • 1 tbsp Cornstarch
  • 1 tbsp Rice wine
  • 180 g Mung Bean Sprouts
  • 30 g Red pepper strips
  • 30 g Green pepper strips
  • 4 tbsp Peanut oil
  • 100 ml Water
  • 1 tbsp Sweet soy sauce
  • 1 tsp Glutamate (alternatively 1 teaspoon instant chicken broth)

Spiced rice:

  • 100 g Basmati rice
  • 0,5 tsp Salt
  • 1 tsp Ground turmeric
  • 75 g 1 Onion
  • 75 g Red pepper
  • 75 g Green paprika
  • 50 g 1 Carrot
  • 10 g 1 piece of ginger
  • 10 g 1 Red chilli pepper
  • 5 g 1 clove of garlic
  • 5 g 1 lemongrass stalk
  • 1 tbsp Butter
  • 1 tbsp Sunflower oil
  • 3 big pinches Ground cinnamon

Instructions
 

Fried chicken with mung bean sprout

  • Wash the chicken breast fillet, pat dry with kitchen paper, cut first into slices and then into strips. Mix / marinate the chicken breast fillet strips with an egg white, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce, 1 tablespoon sweet soy sauce, 1 tablespoon sweet chili sauce, 1 tablespoon rice wine and 1 tablespoon corn starch. Put the marinated chicken breast fillet strips in a fine kitchen sieve and collect the marinade as it drains. Wash the mung bean sprouts and drain well in a kitchen strainer. Clean and wash the peppers (red and green) and cut into fine strips. Heat the peanut oil (2 tbsp) in the wok, add the marinated chicken breast fillet strips, fry until lightly brown / stir-fry and slide to the edge of the wok. Pour peanut oil (2 tbsp) into the wok, add the mung bean sprouts with the pepper strips and stir-fry vigorously. Deglaze / pour in water (100 ml) and the marinade and season with sweet soy sauce (1 tbsp) and glutamate (1 teaspoon / alternatively 1 teaspoon instant chicken stock). Let everything simmer / boil for 3 - 4 minutes.

Spiced rice:

  • Bring basmati rice (100 g) to the boil in water (300 ml) with salt (½ teaspoon), stir well and cook with the lid closed on the lowest temperature setting for approx. 20 minutes. Clean the vegetables (onions, red and green peppers, carrots, ginger, red chillies, garlic cloves, lemongrass stalks) and cut everything very finely. Heat butter (1 tbsp) and sunflower oil (1 tbsp) in a pan, add the chopped vegetables and fry / stir-fry for a few minutes. Cook / braise for another 6 - 8 minutes with a lid. Finally add / fold in the cooked rice and season with ground cinnamon (3 big pinches).

Serve:

  • Press the spicy rice into a cup rinsed with cold water, pour it onto the plate and serve with fried chicken with mung bean sprouts.
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Written by John Myers

Professional Chef with 25 years of industry experience at the highest levels. Restaurant owner. Beverage Director with experience creating world-class nationally recognized cocktail programs. Food writer with a distinctive Chef-driven voice and point of view.

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