Chicken with Black Bean Sauce Recipe

Ingredients:

*Sauce

2 teaspoons cornflour

1 tablespoon dark sauce

1 tablespoon light sauce

2 tablespoons black bean sauce

1 tablespoon chilli sauce

1 cup chicken stock

*Chicken Marination

500g chicken breast pieces

2 tablespoons light soy sauce

Pinch of salt

Pinch of black pepper

1/4 cup olive oil

5 cloves of crushed garlic

*Stir-fry

1 onion (finely chopped)

1 green capsicum

5 cloves of crushed garlic

1cm ginger (crushed)

Salt to taste

Pinch of black pepper

A handful of spring onions (finely chopped)

Methods:

*Sauce

1) In a mixing bowl, add all the ingredient and mix to combine. Set sauce aside.

*Chicken Marination

2) In a mixing bowl, add chicken pieces, garlic, soy sauce, salt and pepper. Mix and combine all the ingredients with chicken pieces. Marinate chicken pieces for 15 minutes.

3) In a heated frying pan/ wok add 1/4 cup oil. Add and cook chicken until light brown. Remove chicken from the oil and set aside.

*Black Bean Stir-fry

4) In the same oil add garlic, onion and ginger. Stir-fry until light brown.

5) Add green capsicum and stir-fry to your liking.

6) Throw in chicken pieces, salt to taste, pinch of pepper and the prepared sauce.

7) Stir-fry for 2-3 minutes until sauce starts to thicken.

8) Top-up with spring onion.

*Serve chicken in black bean sauce warm with rice

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