Happy Friday!
Originally this was supposed to be Sweet and Sour Chicken – apologies, its 3.30am and I need to get a shorter post up!
Here is a quick easy dish, which is comfort – snack food and amalgamates Chinese and English food types!
Salt and Pepper Chips – in Chinese Takeaways and Chippy’s this is surprisingly popular.
Step 1.
Cook chips. Up to you what kind. Probably not curly or anything that already has flavour. We used thick cut steak chips.
Step 2.
Prep your seasoning:
White Pepper
1 Chopped green or red pepper
Chopped garlic
Chilli chopped (we used green, I prefer red)
Chopped Spring Onion.
Everything is fried in a hot wok, but the spring onion:
Fry for a few minutes so the onion softens but doesn’t brown. Are you ready for the technical bit?
Step 3.
Chuck the chips in!
This is why it’s best to use a sturdy chip as you are stirring things up in a wok and it can get rough in there! You don’t want the chips breaking up:
Mix mix mix and add salt (table salt) and some white pepper. It HAS to be white pepper:
Add the spring onion right at the end. Once it is stirred through, serve. It’s pretty quick and if you are having chips anyway, it’s a nice way to spice it up. Essentially the chips should be spicy, salty and peppery. The white pepper also contributes to the heat. Add more salt and pepper as is required, to taste.
This was made with green pepper and chilli which I personally find more mild than red – we just used what was to hand but I would personally use red (or mix it up!) next time.
Finished:
What do you think? Can the chip be messed with like this!?
Definitely yes! My mate’s parents used to make the best salt and pepper chips at their chippy
Just on this, you can also buy Chinese Salt and Pepper seasoning to up the flavour, too. Or as a substitute if you don’t have the source ingredients. I have a big tub of it, produced by a company called KMC foods. I know the local Chinese uses the stuff as that’s where I got it from
THANK YOU!!!! this is the easiest receipe for this ever. I aboslutely love salt and pepper chips. It was a regular me and my wife, we, used to have from our local chinese takeaway. This has closed now and getting salt and pepper chips from another chinese……its just not the same ;-(
i may sound thick but i dont really like chips i prefer the salt and papper patatoes would i boil the patatoes first then do this process ? HELP
Hi, if you cut the potatoes lengthways into 1cm diameter portions it should work out exactly the same! hope this helps!