中国美食之——宫保鸡丁：Chinese delicacy:Spicy chicken cubes with peanuts

宫保鸡丁（宫爆鸡丁），是汉族特色名菜，属川菜系或黔菜系。选用净仔公鸡肉为主料，花生米、黄瓜、辣椒等辅料烹制而成。 红而不辣、辣而不猛、香辣味浓、肉质滑脆。
Are Chinese specialty dishes, spicy chicken cubes with peanuts, Sichuan is the department or the Department of Qian cai. The raw chicken meat is selected as the main material, and the auxiliary materials such as peanuts, cucumber and chili are cooked.

宫保鸡丁由清朝山东巡抚、四川总督丁宝桢所创，他对烹饪颇有研究，喜欢吃鸡和花生米，并尤其喜好辣味。他在山东为官时曾命家厨改良鲁菜“酱爆鸡丁”为辣炒，后来在四川总督任上的时候将此菜推广开来，创制了一道将鸡丁、红辣椒、花生米下锅爆炒而成的美味佳肴。这道美味本来是丁家的私房菜，但后来尽人皆知，成为了人们熟知的宫保鸡丁。所谓“宫保”，其实是丁宝桢的荣誉官衔，丁宝桢治蜀十年，为官刚正不阿，多有建树，于光绪十一年死在任上，清廷为了表彰他的功绩，追赠“太子太保”。如上文所说，“太子太保”是“宫保”之一，于是，为了纪念丁宝桢，他发明的这道菜由此得名“宫保鸡丁”。由于这道菜流传太广，在各地有很多不同的做法，甚至还出现了将鸡丁演变为肉丁的“宫保肉丁”。宫保鸡丁传到西方后，西方人还根据自己的口味进行了一些改良，使之成为了符合西方口味的“西式宫保鸡丁”。
Created by the Qing governor of Shandong spicy chicken cubes with peanuts, Sichuan governor Ding Baozhen, he has studied cooking, love to eat chicken and peanuts, and particularly fond of spicy. He was an official in Shandong had ordered the kitchen modified Shandong "sauce for spicy fried minced chicken", and later in Sichuan when the governor is on the dish spread, created a minced chicken and red peppers, peanuts and stir the pot of delicious food. This delicious is Ding's dishes, but later became known to all, known as Kung Pao Chicken. The so-called "Kung Pao", is actually Ding Baozhen's honor titles, Ding Baozhen treat Sichuan ten years, be more productive, upright and outspoken, in eleven years Guangxu died in office, the Qing government in recognition of his achievements, awarded the "Prince taibao". As mentioned earlier, "Prince Taibao" is "Kung Pao", then, to commemorate Ding Baozhen, he invented the dish which is named after the "Kung Pao Chicken". Because this dish spread too widely, there are many different practices in the country, and even appeared to evolve into the "spicy chicken cubes with peanuts diced minced chicken". Spicy chicken cubes with peanuts to the west after, Westerners also according to their own taste and made some improvements, making it conform to Western tastes "Western spicy chicken cubes with peanuts".

制作材料
Making material

主料：鸡
Main ingredient: Chicken

脯肉（225克）、花生米（50克）。
Preserved meat (225 grams) and peanuts (50 grams).

辅料：葱（45克）、姜（10克）。
Excipients: Onion (45 grams), ginger (10 grams).

调料：干辣椒（8克）、花椒（1.5克）、色拉油（60克）、食盐（2克）、料酒（2克）、味精（1克）、酱油（6.5克）、白糖（10克）、醋（7克）、水淀粉（22克）。
Seasoning: Pepper (8 grams), pepper (1.5 grams), salad oil (60 grams), salt (2 grams), wine (2 grams), monosodium glutamate (1 grams), soy sauce (6.5 grams), sugar (10 grams), vinegar (7 grams), starch (22 grams).

制作步骤
Making steps

1.将鸡脯肉用刀背拍一下，切成小丁，加入一汤匙料酒、半汤匙食用油、半茶匙白胡椒、半茶匙盐，一茶匙淀粉腌渍10分钟，再用水淀粉拌匀。
Chicken meat knife pat, cut Ding, add a tablespoon of cooking wine, half tablespoon of cooking oil, a half teaspoon of white pepper, half a teaspoon of salt, a teaspoon of starch pickled for 10 minutes, and then water starch mix.

2.将大葱洗净切段，干辣椒洗净，剪去两头去除辣椒籽，黄瓜切丁。
Wash the green onions cut, dry pepper, cut off the ends of the removal of paprika and diced cucumber.

3.在小碗中调入酱油、香醋、盐、姜汁、白砂糖和料酒，混合均匀制成调味料汁。
In a small bowl of soy sauce, vinegar, salt, with ginger juice, sugar and wine, mix seasoning juice made.

4.锅中留底油，烧热后将花椒和干辣椒放入，用小火煸炸出香味，随后放入大葱段。
Hot oil pot, fry will add pepper and dried pepper, fried fragrant with a small fire and stir, then add scallion.

5.放入鸡丁，放1汤匙料酒，将鸡丁滑炒变色，然后倒入水淀粉。
Add minced chicken, put 1 tablespoons of cooking wine, fried minced chicken will change, and then pour the cornstarch.

6.最后调入料汁，再放入熟花生米，翻炒均匀，用水淀粉勾芡即成
Finally transferred to feed juice, then add cooked peanuts, stir evenly, water starch thicken serve.