Bon Bon Chicken
Ingredients:
1/2 chicken (about 1 pound) or 1 pound of chicken breasts
10 small green bean sheets
1 cucumber
1/2 tablespoon ginger, minced
1/2 tablespoon garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon ground Sichuan peppercorn
1/2 teaspoon salt
Seasoning Sauce:
2 tablespoons sesame seed paste
3 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
1 tablespoon sesame oil
1 tablespoon hot red pepper oil
2 teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoon peppercorn oil (optional)
Directions
Bring water to boil in a large pot. Add the chicken and cook for 20 minutes. Remove the chicken from the pot and let it cool.
Slice the peeled cucumber into small slices, and soak these with salt for about 10 minutes. Squeeze the slices and lay on a plate.*
Cut the bean sheets into slices 1/2 inch wide and soak in cold water for several minutes. Lay the sheets on top of the cucumber slices.
Remove the large chicken bones (if not using chicken breasts), and cut the meat into pieces about 1 1/2 inches long and thick as a pencil. Place the chicken pieces on top of the beans sheets. Sprinkle with Sichuan peppercorn, ginger, and garlic.
Mix together the sesame seed paste and soy sauce, and add sesame oil, vinegar, hot red pepper oil, and sugar. Pour the seasoning sauce over the chicken just before serving.
*Another option is to rub 1/2 teaspoon of salt over the chicken and let it sit for thirty minutes before boiling. In that case you would just peel and slice the cucumber without salting.