Updated on December 17th, 2023
If you didn’t already guess from the picture, here is another amazing Chinese recipe, garlic ginger chicken. Just like the name says, this dish gets a lot of its flavor from fresh garlic and ginger. The chicken bits are coated with a batter and then fried in the deep fryer until crispy. The sauce is very simple, just basically rice wine, soy sauce, and sugar. If you want to add a little heat to this dish, you can add some dried red pepper flakes. This is a very easy recipe that takes little time to prepare. Enjoy.
(Makes 2 Servings)
Garlic Ginger Chicken Recipe
Ingredients
Scale
- 1lb boneless skinless chicken breasts (cut into 1” chunks)
- 4 tablespoons of rice wine
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup cornstarch
- 6 garlic cloves (minced)
- 4 tablespoons fresh ginger (minced)
- Sauce-
- 6 tablespoons soy sauce
- 6 tablespoons rice wine
- 3 teaspoons sugar
- 1 bunch of green onions (sliced)
Instructions
- Add chicken bits to a large bowl. Add soy sauce and rice wine. Marinate for 30 minutes.
- Add in the egg and cornstarch, stir and blend until the chicken pieces are coated with a batter.
Heat oil in a deep fryer for 375 degrees. - Fry chicken in batches for 4-5 minutes or until golden brown a crispy. Drain on paper towels.
- Add a couple tablespoons of oil to your wok or frying pan.
- Add garlic and ginger and stir fry for 15 seconds. Add soy sauce, rice wine, and sugar. Stir and bring to a boil.
- Coat chicken bits with the sauce, top with green onions and serve.
Another fantastic-looking Chinese recipe that I must bookmark. Thank you!
Memoria – Thanks!! It was so good.
I LOVE all of your Chinese style recipes. I’ve tried many of them and all of them were very good. I already bookmarked this. Thank you!
Your site is great, it’s put me on a chinese bender. I’ve made a couple of them so far and they have all turned out great. Keep up the good work!
I made this for some friends a few days ago, and they were very impressed. One of my friends bookmarked your site because of this chicken 😀
Since I don’t have a deep fryer, I put some oil in my skillet and fried the chicken in it, which I have done for all the other fried chicken and beef recipes I have tried from this site.
I must also say that this is probably the most delicious dish I have ever prepared in my life. Thanks!
OMG!!! My hubby & I love it. Its really good…Thanks for sharing. Will try your other recipes
Is there a difference between rice wine and rice wine vinegar? Could you use rice wine vinegar in this recipe?
Mashezia- No they are no the same thing. If you can’t find rice white, you can use white wine.
Ginger Chicken simply looking awesome and delicious.
Great dish! I prefer rice wine vinegar (no alcohol) to white rice wine (alcohol) simply because my favorite Chinese restaurants do it that way. Some really great options I like to use: Add in a few dried chile pods when you stir fry the garlic – I like to use “Chile de Arbol” pods available in most Mexican or international groceries – also, lightly toast a little sesame seeds in a dry non stick pan and add them into the sauce at the end – or some cashews or peanuts. any or all of these are great. Also, being diabetic, I use 1 or 2 packets of splenda in place of the sugar, doesn’t affect the taste at all…