Recipe for 魚香雞絲/鱼香鸡丝/Shredded Chicken with Garlic Sauce?

[ep2011]

Hi,

My all time favorite dish is 魚香雞絲/鱼香鸡丝, or in English "Shredded Chicken with Garlic Sauce". Does anyone have a recipe for this, or access to one? I've tried to find one but there are none that I can find in English, and my Chinese is not good enough to translate an entire recipe - I don't know cooking terms or food in chinese.

Thanks!

[yonglin]

I find it somewhat hard to cook from Chinese recipes online, since they're usually kind of hand-waving and tend to presume you have some skills in Chinese cooking.

I think what you need is Fuchsia Dunlop's book on Sichuan cooking, “Land of Plenty". It's extremely good, and contains 鱼香鸡丝 as well as four other 鱼香 dishes. Her cookbook on Hunanese cooking, "Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook" is just as good. The recipes are very authentic and sooo tasty.

I sound like some kind of sales agent, but I'm really not. However, I cook from her books several times a week. I don't even know what I used to cook before I got them.

Edited July 24, 2009 at 07:02 AM by yonglin
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[ep2011]

That sounds great, thank you for your help!

[skylee]

Take a look, might be useful -> The Secret’s In The Sauce: Sichuan Shredded Chicken With Garlic Sauce

[ep2011]

That works, too. Thank you! I probably will get the book, just because it seems like an excellent guide to Sichuan cooking in general.

[liuzhou]

I totally agree with yonglin.

Fuchsia's Sichuan book is great. But be careful.

It's called "Land of Plenty"in the USA, but "Sichuan Cookery" everywhere else. Don't do what a friend did and buy both. They are the same.