Caramelized Black Pepper Chicken

Name: Caramelized Black Pepper Chicken
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons, vegetable oil; 2 , shallots, halved and sliced thin; 1 teaspoon, grated fresh ginger; ⅓ cup, packed dark brown sugar; 3 tablespoons, fish sauce; 2 tablespoons, unseasoned rice vinegar; 1 tablespoon, Asian chili-garlic sauce; 1 teaspoon, coarsely ground pepper; 1½ pounds, boneless, skinless chicken breast, trimmed and cut into ¾-inch pieces; ¼ cup coarsely, chopped fresh cilantro leaves and stems

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2022

Boneless chicken breasts can be bland but not here, where they're caramelized and flavored with ginger, fish sauce, and chili-garlic sauce.

SERVES4

TIME30 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Borrowing a technique from Charles Phan, we streamlined a Vietnamese-style fish sauce–caramel braise by using brown sugar instead of making a caramel.

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