Szechuan Spicy Chicken

Szechuan Spicy Chicken (La Zi Ji Ding)
A popular spicy dried chilli pepper chicken dish. There is a lovely description of the dish saying that you need to find the chicken among the chilli peppers!
Instructions
1.Marinate chicken
In a bowl, marinate chicken with lemon juice, ginger, light soy sauce and salt.
Set aside for about 15mins.
Marinate chicken
2. Fry chicken
In a pan, heat oil and deep fry chicken over medium high heat for 6-7 minutes until golden brown and crispy.
Drain and set aside
3. Fry chicken
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Fry spices and chicken
Heat pan with 50ml of the deep frying oil on medium heat and add in the garlic, ginger, white part of spring onion and stir fry till fragrant.
Add in Szechuan peppercorn and dried chilli to stir-fry over medium low heat until fragrant.
Add in the chicken, water, sugar and stir fry till water evaporates.
Add the green part spring onions, and sesame seeds and toss over high heat for a minute.
Fry spices and chicken
Plate and Serve!
Chef tips:
You can replace chicken with pork cubes, chicken skin, pig skin etc.
Try it with oyster mushroom cubes for a vegetarian version