Beaten Chicken (ban Ban Ji)

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 5 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 lbs chicken breasts
• 5 tablespoons ginger
• 7 garlic cloves
• 12 tablespoons tahini
• 12 tablespoons oil
• 4 teaspoons vinegar
• 4 tablespoons soy sauce
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon pepper
• 5 tablespoons sesame oil

Recipe

• 1 poach the chicken breasts very gently, for about 20 minutes total.
• 2 leave them in the water to cool down. shred them into matchstick.
• 3 sized pieces of chicken (you can decide whether it's big kitchen.
• 4 matches or little, book matches).
• 5 mix all the other ingredients in a kitchen blender or food processor.
• 6 until well-blended. (this recipe, very minimally adapted from the.
• 7 book noted below, is a double recipe. my blender, all 650 watts of.
• 8 brute horsepower, had trouble moving the entire quantity once the.
• 9 lower part was well- blended -- it would have been better to have.
• 10 made this in two regular- sized batches, rather than one double-sized.
• 11 batch.).
• 12 serve the room-temperature sauce over the room-temperature chicken.
• 13 (obviously, can be prepared well ahead of time. don't shred the.
• 14 chicken until at most a few hours before the meal, however, because.
• 15 it will dry out.) suggestion: spoon half the sauce over the chicken.
• 16 just before it's served; reserve the other half for people who want.
• 17 extra "zip" in their dish. garnishes optional.
• 18 caution: direct from the cookbook, this produces a fairly spicy sauce.
• 19 to put on the chicken. but for people who really want a hot dish,.
• 20 you can add an almost arbitrary amount of red oil (pepper oil) to the.
• 21 dish, maybe just cutting back on the sesame oil or the soy sauce if.
• 22 you do so. i've had this dish so hot that my lips went numb -- best.
• 23 "bung-bung" (as it's usually spelled) chicken in the world!