Crispy Szechuan Chicken

Ingredients for 6 people :

• 1 chicken poultry 
• 2 liters of chicken soup
• 1 inch . ginger root 
• 4 tbs rice wine or dry sherry 
• 1 tbs of Szechuan peppercorns 
• Salt
• 8 tbs soy sauce 
• 4 tbs brown sugar 
• 4 pcs star anise 
• Sunflower or peanut oil .

Preparation

The first task is to clean the chicken, wash it in plenty of water, inside and out , with kitchen paper passes inside the chicken and you see pieces of fat removed without disassembly .

We have prepared a Chinese chicken: add the chicken pieces and water in a pot, bring to boil and skim . Cut the onion into quarters and crush the garlic and ginger, add to the broth . Lower the heat and leave to a minimum , we should cook the soup over low heat without stirring, do it very slowly. When cooked put the fridge so the fat solidifies. When we go to use our broth him out of the fridge , we remove all the fat and with a clean kitchen towel and porous filter it for us to be a broth without any particle, very clean and transparent.

Peel the ginger, crush it in a mortar, when we add this paste peppers and grind .

Select the pan in which the chicken will cook you should just stay chicken without much dancing . We put the broth, crushed ginger and pepper , soy sauce , wine , sugar and star anise , give it a boil and we add the chicken , let it again to boil and lower the heat to a minimum but the minimum of the kitchen, we cook. When an hour has passed you prick with a skewer . In the time between the skewer easily is ready. We turn off and let cool .

We took the chicken and place it in a drained vegetables and leave to drain all the broth and dry well , a few hours in the fridge will be needed for this process. Remove from the refrigerator a few hours before eating.

Cut the chicken into pieces , being careful not to break it in a deep pan put sunflower oil, when this very very hot fry the chicken , be quick. You must be golden and very crispy skin.