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Lazi Ji (Chongqing Chicken with Chiles)
Fuchsia Dunlop is the "Julia Child" of authentic Sichuan cooking!

Anthony Bourdain, on the infamous heat level of Sichuan’s food: "It’s the spicy, sensualist heartland of all the things I love about China… food that can burn you down to a charred, smoking little stump."
Bourdain, on Lazi Ji, a Sichuan spicy chicken specialty: "The dish, in practical terms, is a game of finding the bits of chicken in the mountain of butt-burning goodness. C’mon, it’s fun for the whole family."
Ingredients
  • subheading: FOR THE CHICKEN AND MARINADE:
  • 1½ pounds bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs, bones removed (see Tip)
  • 1 (1-inch) piece fresh ginger
  • 1 scallion, white part only
  • 2 teaspoons Shaoxing wine
  • ½ teaspoon fine salt
  • subheading: FOR THE STIR-FRY:
  • 1 ¾ cups/1¾ ounces medium-hot dried red chiles (see Tip)
  • ½ teaspoon sesame seeds (optional)
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 1 (½-inch) piece fresh ginger
  • 2 scallions, white parts only (plus optional 2 tablespoons thinly sliced scallion greens for serving)
  • About 2 cups cooking oil, for frying
  • ½ tablespoon Sichuan chile bean paste (see Tip)
  • 2 teaspoons whole Sichuan peppercorns (see Tip)
  • Dash of Shaoxing wine
  • ½ teaspoon sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon fine salt
  • 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
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