Chicken Chow Mein

Submitted by magua72

Introduction

This is my first recipe so kindly sheath your blades. I originally found this recipe on the BBC's delightful Chinese Cooking Made Easy with Ching-He Huang and made some slight alterations Chinese Cooking Made Easy. It's incredibly easy to make and a great entry-level traditional Chinese recipe for an oaf like me. Be not afraid, this one's a cinch!

Ingredients

The only prerequisite for this would be a wok (I'm cheating with a nonstick one).

• 1 to 1 1/2 lb chicken breast
• 2 bell peppers (I like differently-colored ones because they distract me from the unending weariness of existence)
• 1 cup uncooked rice (I like jasmine)
• 1 jalapeno pepper (or similar spicy pepper)
• 2 tbsp. peanut oil (less smokey than other oils, and less smoke means less frantic waving at the smoke detector)
• 2 tsp. Chinese Five Spice Powder (found in the "ethnic" section of most supermarkets, this is the meat and potatoes of the flavor)
• 1 tbsp chili sauce
• 3 tbsp soy sauce
• 2 tbsp corn starch
• Dash of toasted sesame oil (recipe will still work if you don't have this)
• Pinch of ground pepper