DISH RESEARCH · Snack
Salt and Pepper Chicken
Also known as: 椒鹽雞, 鹽酥雞
Bite-sized Taiwanese fried chicken with sweet-potato-starch coating, spiced salt and fried Thai basil.
About Salt and Pepper Chicken
Vy Tran’s Taiwanese popcorn chicken follows the recipe she attributes to Clarissa Wei’s Made in Taiwan. It represents the bite-sized fried chicken associated with Taiwan’s night-market snack culture.
Soy sauce, rice wine, garlic and five-spice powder season the chicken. White pepper and chilli bring gentle heat, while fried Thai basil adds a fragrant herbal note to the savoury coating.
The chicken pieces have a light, craggy sweet-potato-starch crust and tender interiors. They are served hot with spiced salt and crisp basil leaves, presented as small pieces suited to snacking.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Soy, Wheat (gluten).
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Salt and Pepper Chicken
Vy Tran's Taiwanese popcorn chicken from Made in Taiwan.
- Chicken thighsProtein
- Soy sauceSeasoning
- Taiwanese rice wine (michiu)Liquid
- GarlicAromatic
- SugarSweetener
- Sea saltSeasoning
- Ground white pepperSeasoning
- Five-spice powderSeasoning
- All-purpose wheat flourBinder
- Baking powderSeasoning
- Canola oilCooking medium
- Coarse sweet potato starchBase
- Fresh Thai basilGarnish
- Chilli powderSeasoningIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Chicken thighs: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual90 skin-on boneless thigh chunks.
- Soy sauce: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Soy source-confirmed. Actual91 normal soy sauce confirms Soy; exact further formula unresolved.
- Taiwanese rice wine (michiu): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual92 first named Taiwanese rice wine over cooking sake; broader rice-wine candidate, exact product unknown.
- Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Sea salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Main95 and finishing107 consolidated, not separate additional salt foods.
- Ground white pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Main96 and finishing106, broader white-pepper candidate preserves ground form in card.
- Five-spice powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual97 prepared blend. Actual45 describes traditional five-spice constituent family but supplies no applicable own full mixing recipe; exact product/proportions unknown.
- All-purpose wheat flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Actual98 all-purpose flour including listed extra work-surface flour; Wheat known, broader wheat-flour candidate.
- Baking powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual99 prepared product full formula unknown.
- Canola oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual100 explicit frying medium.
- Coarse sweet potato starch: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual101 thick starch, note46 coarse option selected over fine-starch spritz-water alternative. No corn/tapioca/potato substitution.
- Fresh Thai basil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual102/116 fried basil required selected original recipe.
- Chilli powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual105 any type, exact chile/species/blend unprovided, no forced paprika/Korean pepper.
Origins & food traditions
Cuisines & regions
- Taiwanese Cuisine
- Taiwanese CuisineCatalogue link pending review