Cold Marinated Chicken Shreds (Liangban Jisi)

Ingredients

• Chicken breast (can be thawed or used frozen)
• Sesame oil (Fried花椒oil)
• Light soy sauce
• Fragrant vinegar
• White sugar
• Salt
• Cooking wine
• Ginger
• Boiling water (Cool boiled water)

Steps

1. Slice the ginger and set aside.
2. Pour 4 liters of water into a pot.
3. Add the chicken breast and ginger slices.
4. Pour in 20 milliliters of cooking wine.
5. Turn on high heat and bring the water to a boil without a lid.
6. Once the water boils, turn the heat to medium. Use a spoon to skim off the floating scum.
7. Continue cooking for **5-7** minutes. Boil thawed meat for 5 minutes and frozen meat for 7 minutes.
8. The size of the chicken breast affects cooking time. Insert a chopstick into the chicken breast. If it goes in easily, the chicken is cooked. If not, extend the cooking time.
9. Rinse the cooked chicken breast with cool boiled water to bring it to room temperature.
10. Shred the chicken breast into thin strips following the grain.
11. Prepare a bowl.
12. In the bowl, add the sesame oil, light soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, and salt.
13. Stir the sauce to dissolve the sugar and salt as much as possible.
14. Pour the sauce over the shredded chicken and mix well.